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... sides it is better you should not see much of my marrie life , else you might find out that I am miserable . " S she waived as lightly as she could every allusion to th subject ; and when Mrs. Davilow again hinted the pos sibility of ...
... sides it is better you should not see much of my marrie life , else you might find out that I am miserable . " S she waived as lightly as she could every allusion to th subject ; and when Mrs. Davilow again hinted the pos sibility of ...
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... side of Lady Pentreath , who had said in her violoncello voice , - ― " Well , your Jewess is pretty there's no denying that . But where is her Jewish impudence ? She looks as demure as a nun . I suppose she learned that on the stage ...
... side of Lady Pentreath , who had said in her violoncello voice , - ― " Well , your Jewess is pretty there's no denying that . But where is her Jewish impudence ? She looks as demure as a nun . I suppose she learned that on the stage ...
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... side of the splen- did one . his " You must let me say how much I am obliged to you , " said Gwendolen . " I had heard from Mr. De- ronda that I should have a great treat in your singing , but I was too ignorant to imagine how great ...
... side of the splen- did one . his " You must let me say how much I am obliged to you , " said Gwendolen . " I had heard from Mr. De- ronda that I should have a great treat in your singing , but I was too ignorant to imagine how great ...
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... side the grasp of Mordecai's dying hand on him , with all the ideals and prospects it aroused ; on the other this fair creature in silk and gems , with her hidden wound and her self - dread , making a trustful effort to lean and find ...
... side the grasp of Mordecai's dying hand on him , with all the ideals and prospects it aroused ; on the other this fair creature in silk and gems , with her hidden wound and her self - dread , making a trustful effort to lean and find ...
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... side of the hearth and had seated himself near to Mordecai , who then said , in a tone of fervid certainty , " You are come to tell me something that my soul longs for . " " It is true that I have something very weighty to tell you ...
... side of the hearth and had seated himself near to Mordecai , who then said , in a tone of fervid certainty , " You are come to tell me something that my soul longs for . " " It is true that I have something very weighty to tell you ...
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Page 244 - I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends ; And, as my fortune ripens with thy love, It shall be still thy true love's recompense : My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it.
Page 351 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 207 - All fixed on me their stony eyes, That in the Moon did glitter. The pang, the curse, with which they died, Had never passed away : I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray.
Page 170 - The effect of my education can never be done away with. The Christian sympathies in which my mind was reared can never die out of me," said Deronda, with increasing tenacity of tone. " But I consider it my duty — it is the impulse of my feeling — to identify myself, as far as possible, with my hereditary people, and if I can see any work to be done for them that I can give my soul and hand to I shall choose to do it.
Page 114 - ... the blending of a complete personal love in one current with a larger duty...
Page 49 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Page 32 - If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Page 262 - Ah, you argue and you look forward — you are' Daniel Charisi's grandson," said Kalonymos, adding a benediction in Hebrew. With that they parted ; and almost as soon as Deronda was in London, the aged man was again on shipboard, greeting the friendly stars without any eager curiosity. CHAPTER LXI.
Page 188 - Turn your fear into a safeguard. Keep your dread fixed on the idea of increasing that remorse which is so bitter to you. Fixed meditation may do a great deal towards defining our longing or dread. We are not always in a state of strong emotion, and when we are calm we can use our memories and gradually change the bias of our fear, as we do our tastes. Take your fear as a safeguard.
Page 172 - I desire a grandson who shall have a true Jewish heart. Every Jew should rear his family as if he hoped that a Deliverer might spring from it.'" In uttering these last sentences the Princess narrowed her eyes, waved her head up and down, and spoke slowly with a new kind of chest-voice, as if she were quoting unwillingly.