Miss BettyC. Arthur Pearson, 1898 - 202 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abigail Alderman answered arms asked Aunt Priscilla bank barge began Betty dear Betty Pole Betty's heart Bishop's Stortford boats Chelsea Cheyne Walk child Child's bank cloth Crown 8vo door drew duty eyes face faith fear felt Finsbury Square GEORGE GRIFFITH gold buttons gone good-night grandfather grave grew gunwale Hadam hand happy head held Hester highwaymen honour hope horse instant journey kinsman kissed knees knew lady London looked Lord LOUIS TRACY lover matter mind Miss Betty mistress never night once PAUL BECK pause present Price Rafe dear Rafe's river road Robin seemed silent Sir Robert smiled soul speak spinet spoke Stanmore stood sweet tears tell thank things thought thousand guineas told took trust valise voice W. W. JACOBS waiting Wandsworth whilst wish woman word young gentleman
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 116 - The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit : a broken and contrite heart, O God, shalt Thou not despise.
Seite 72 - It may be that thou wilt have need of me." "What need should I have of thee?" cried the young Fisherman, "but be it as thou wilt...
Seite 153 - ... reins, but a man sat beside her and she knew him by his hands, driving the cart. She did not look in his face, for she knew without seeing, but looked instead down the road where the trees leaned over and bowed to each other and a thousand birds were singing a Mass. She felt like singing too, but she put her hand in the bosom of her dress and pulled out a rosary, and Father Connolly murmured Latin in a very solemn voice and tickled her feet. My God, will you stop that nonsense? I'ma married woman.
Seite 81 - He walked up and down the room two or three times, and then walked back to the open window. The August night was hot and still; the shadows of the queer old gabled roofs were sharply defined upon the moonlit pavement. The quaint cross, the low stone colonnade, the solemn towers of the cathedral, gave an ancient aspect to the quiet city. The cathedral clock...
Seite 151 - It was, perhaps, only a natural manifestation of masculine nature, but when the conviction began to dawn upon him that he had not lost Betty's love, the supremacy of the man over the woman began unconsciously to assert itself.