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asked better Black Donald called Capitola captain chair chamber child Clara Day Colonel Le Noir Condiment Craven Le Noir cried dark daughter dear death Demmy Devil's Punch Bowl Doctor Day Doctor Rocke Doctor Williams door exclaimed eyes face Father Gray fear Gabriel Le Noir gazed girl give hand head hear heard heart Heaven Herbert Greyson Hidden House honour hope horse hour Humph Hurricane Hall hurried inquired John Stone knew lady laughed leave listen look madam Major Warfield Marah Rocke marse Miss Black Miss Day morning mother never night Old Hurricane outlaw Pitapat poor Precious Father prisoner replied ride seat sleep smile soon soul speak stairs Staunton stood storm tell thought took Traverse Rocke turned uncle villain voice window wish woman Wool word young
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Page 91 - This day be bread and peace my lot ; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done.
Page 67 - Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge! God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been...
Page 313 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 323 - Heaven has to all allotted, soon or late, Some lucky revolution of their fate...
Page 85 - The bride kissed the goblet, the knight took it up, He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup, She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lip, and a tear in her eye.
Page 67 - But care and sorrow, and child-birth pain, Left their traces on heart and brain. And oft, when the summer sun shone hot On the new-mown hay in the meadow lot, And she heard the little...
Page 7 - What are these, So withered, and so wild in their attire; That look not like the inhabitants o
Page 232 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God's Word doth allow are not joined together by God; neither is their Matrimony lawful.
Page 196 - Some weighty crime, that Heaven could not pardon, A secret curse on that old Building hung. And its deserted Garden.
Page 163 - And he said to her : Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women : if we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil ? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.