Five Old Friends: And, A Young Prince

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Smith, Elder and Company, 1868 - 403 páginas
Reworking of classic fairy tales to place them in contemporary London.

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Página 130 - Being your slave , what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do , till you require.
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Página 303 - You wouldn't go and get us into trouble,' said the old crone, with a wistful, doubtful scanning interrogation of the eyes ; ' but I am his good lady, and 'ave been these thirty years, and it do seem hard upon the gals, and if you could speak the word, sir, and get them out ' ' Out ? ' said Jack. ' From the black kitchen — so they name it,' said the old crone, mysteriously : ' the cellar under the master's stairs. Kate Hill has been in and out a week come yesterday. I knowed her grandmother, poor...
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Página 209 - This was such an astounding confession that De la Louviere hardly knew how to take it ; touched and amused and amazed, he stood there, looking at the honest little sweet face. Patty's confession was a very honest one. The girl knew that it was not to be ; she was loyal to her father, and, above all, to that tender, wistful mother. Filial devotion seemed, like the bright eyes and silver tea-pot, to be an inheritance in her family. She did not deceive herself; she knew that she loved her cousin with...
Página 206 - D's and H's still entwined, though D and H had been parted for three centuries and more. It was so sweet and so serene, that Patty began to think of her cousin. She could not have told you why fine days put her in mind of him, and of that happy hour in the boat.
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