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... OSBORNE'S WELCOME TO AMELIA . LIEUTENANT OSBORNE AND HIS ARDENT LOVE - LETTERS AN ELEPHANT FOR SALE MR . SEDLEY AT THE COFFEE - HOUSE . MISS SWARTZ REHEARSING FOR THE DRAWING - ROOM ENSIGN STUBBLE PRACTISING THE ART OF WAR . A FAMILY ...
... OSBORNE'S WELCOME TO AMELIA . LIEUTENANT OSBORNE AND HIS ARDENT LOVE - LETTERS AN ELEPHANT FOR SALE MR . SEDLEY AT THE COFFEE - HOUSE . MISS SWARTZ REHEARSING FOR THE DRAWING - ROOM ENSIGN STUBBLE PRACTISING THE ART OF WAR . A FAMILY ...
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... Osborne's , who , of course , could see the way among the chairs and ottomans a great deal better than she could ... Osborne is a capital fellow . " " And your sister the dearest creature in the world , " said Rebecca . " Happy the man ...
... Osborne's , who , of course , could see the way among the chairs and ottomans a great deal better than she could ... Osborne is a capital fellow . " " And your sister the dearest creature in the world , " said Rebecca . " Happy the man ...
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... Osborne's feet , and loved him . Even before they were acquainted , he had admired Osborne in secret . Now he was his valet , his dog , his man Friday . He believed Osborne to be the possessor of every per- fection , to be the ...
... Osborne's feet , and loved him . Even before they were acquainted , he had admired Osborne in secret . Now he was his valet , his dog , his man Friday . He believed Osborne to be the possessor of every per- fection , to be the ...
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... Osborne said archly . " Don't you think one of the daughters would be a good spec for me , Ma'am ? " " You foolish ... Osborne's pale interesting countenance , and those beautiful black , curling , shining whiskers , which the young ...
... Osborne said archly . " Don't you think one of the daughters would be a good spec for me , Ma'am ? " " You foolish ... Osborne's pale interesting countenance , and those beautiful black , curling , shining whiskers , which the young ...
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... Osborne did not like it ; and the consequence was that Jos , that fat gourmand , drank up the whole contents of the bowl ; and the consequence of ... Osborne's finger sent him puffing back into his seat again , A NOVEL WITHOUT A HERO . 59 40.
... Osborne did not like it ; and the consequence was that Jos , that fat gourmand , drank up the whole contents of the bowl ; and the consequence of ... Osborne's finger sent him puffing back into his seat again , A NOVEL WITHOUT A HERO . 59 40.
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Página 8 - But, lo ! and just as the coach drove off, Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the book back into the garden. This almost caused Jemima to faint with terror. "Well, I never," — said she — "what an audacious" — Emotion prevented her from completing either sentence.
Página 365 - ... history of that famous action. Its remembrance rankles still in the bosoms of millions of the countrymen of those brave men who lost the day. They pant for an opportunity of revenging that humiliation ; and if a contest, ending in a victory on their part, should ensue, elating them in their turn, and leaving its cursed legacy of hatred and rage behind to us, there is no end to the so-called glory and shame, and to the alternations of successful and unsuccessful murder, in which two high-spirited...
Página 53 - Square, who are taking walks, or luncheon, or dinner, or talking and making love as people do in common life, and without a single passionate and wonderful incident to mark the progress of their loves. ' The argument stands thus — Osborne, in love with Amelia, has asked an old friend to dinner and to Vauxhall — Jos Sedley is in love with Rebecca. Will he marry her? That is the great subject now in hand. We might have treated this subject in the genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious...
Página 365 - English from the height which they had maintained all day, and spite of all: unscared by the thunder of the artillery, which hurled death from the English line — the dark rolling column pressed on and up the hill. It seemed almost to crest the eminence, when it began to wave and falter. Then it stopped, still facing the shot. Then at last the English troops rushed from the post from which no enemy had been able to dislodge them, and the Guard turned and fled. No more firing was heard at Brussels...
Página 53 - ... might have treated this subject in the genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious manner. Suppose we had laid the scene in Grosvenor Square, with the very same adventures — would not some people have listened? Suppose we had shown how Lord Joseph Sedley fell in love, and the Marquis of Osborne became attached to Lady Amelia, with the full consent of the Duke, her noble father...
Página 72 - Mrs. Tinker, Miss Sharp; Miss Governess, Mrs. Charwoman. Ho, ho !•' The lady addressed as Mrs. Tinker, at this moment made her appearance with a pipe and a paper of tobacco, for which she had been...
Página 11 - ... wrote a manly and pathetic letter to Miss Pinkerton, recommending the orphan child to her protection, and so descended to the grave, after two bailiffs had quarrelled over his corpse. Rebecca was seventeen when she came to Chiswick, and was bound over as an articled pupil...
Página 392 - Jos, and which she described with infinite fun, carried up his delight to a pitch of quite insane enthusiasm. He believed in his wife as much as the French soldiers in Napoleon. Her success in Paris was remarkable. All the French ladies voted her charming. She spoke their language admirably. She adopted at once their grace, their liveliness, their manner. Her husband was stupid certainly — all English are stupid — and, besides, a dull husband at Paris is always a point in a lady's favour.
Página 21 - come out" but the noble ambition of matrimony ? What sends them trooping to watering-places? What keeps them dancing till five o'clock in the morning through a whole mortal season ? What causes them to labour at piano-forte sonatas, and to...