A Leaf in the Storm: A Dog of Flanders, and Other StoriesB. Tauchnitz, 1872 - 299 Seiten |
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Seite 21 - Basil Godfrey's Caprice 2 v. — For Richer, for Poorer 2 v. — The Beautiful Miss Barrington 2 v. — Her Title of Honour i v. — Echoes of a Famous Year i v. — Katherine's Trial i v.
Seite 11 - The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2 v. — Lois the Witch, etc. i v. — Sylvia's Lovers 2 v. — A Dark Night's Work i v. — Wives and Daughters 3 v. — Cranford iv. — Cousin Phillis, and other Tales i v. " Geraldine Hawthorne," Author of: vide Author of
Seite 5 - KCB i v. Shirley Brooks: The Silver Cord 3 v. Sooner or Later 3 v. Miss Rhoda Broughton: Cometh up as a Flower i v. Not wisely, but too well 2 v. Red as a Rose is She 2 v. Tales for Christmas Eve i v.
Seite 5 - The Doctor's Wife 2 v. Only a Clod 2 v. Sir Jasper's Tenant 2 v. The Lady's Mile 2 v. Rupert Godwin 2 v. Dead-Sea Fruit 2 v. Run to Earth 2 v. Fenton's Quest 2 v. The Levels of Arden 2 v. Strangers and Pilgrims 2 v. Lucius Davoren 3 v.
Seite 24 - Quentin Durward i v. Old Mortality i v. Guy Mannering i v. Rob Roy i v. The Pirate i v. The Fortunes of Nigel i v. The Black Dwarf; A Legend of Montrose i v. The Bride of Lammermoor i v. The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2 v. The Monastery i v. The Abbot i v. Peveril of the Peak 2 v. The Poetical Works 2 v. Woodstock 1 v. The Fair Maid of Perth i v.
Seite 26 - Patrasche any uneasiness in his life, and it was this. Antwerp, as all the world knows, is full at every turn of old piles of stones, dark and ancient and majestic, standing in crooked courts, jammed against gateways and taverns, rising by the water's edge, with bells ringing above them in the air, and ever and again out of their arched doors a swell of music pealing. There they remain, the grand old sanctuaries of the past, shut in amidst the squalor, the hurry, the crowds, the unloveliness and...
Seite 60 - Patrasche paced by his side with his head drooping and his old limbs feeble from hunger and sorrow. The snow was falling fast; a keen hurricane blew from the north; it was bitter as death on the plains. It took them long to traverse the familiar path, and the bells were sounding four of the clock as they approached the hamlet. Suddenly Patrasche paused, arrested by a scent in the snow, scratched, whined, and drew out with his teeth a small case of brown leather. He held it up to Nello in the darkness....
Seite 21 - ... of the animal he had befriended. As for Patrasche, it seemed heaven to him. After the frightful burdens that his old master had compelled him to strain under, at the call of the whip at every step, it seemed nothing to him but amusement to step out with this little light green cart, with its bright brass cans, by the side of the gentle old man who always paid him with a tender caress and with a kindly word. Besides, his work was over by three or four in the day, and after that time he was free...
Seite 28 - Woman of the Family 2 v. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest 2 v. The Danvers Papers ; the Prince and the Page i v. The Chaplet of Pearls 2 v.
Seite 68 - Now and then a bat moved in the shadows; now and then a gleam of light came on the ranks of carven figures. Under the Rubens they lay together quite still, and soothed almost into a dreaming slumber by the numbing narcotic of the cold. Together they dreamed of the old glad days when they had chased each other through the flowering grasses of the summer meadows, or sat hidden in the tall bulrushes by the water's side, watching the boats go seaward in the sun. Suddenly through the darkness a great...