A Woman's ManLondon, 1920 - 336 pages |
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... Ernest Bonnet , his father kept the circulating library of Tours and let me browse in its musty precincts . In this dark and smelly room , the world of books opened for me . What imagination and what sight I brought to those humid ...
... Ernest Bonnet , his father kept the circulating library of Tours and let me browse in its musty precincts . In this dark and smelly room , the world of books opened for me . What imagination and what sight I brought to those humid ...
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Marjorie Patterson. Ernest was my friend , I say , and yet , looking back , it seems to me that he meant very little in my childhood . Ow- ing perhaps to my mother's stern ascendency , I never knew the sweetness of an entire intimacy ...
Marjorie Patterson. Ernest was my friend , I say , and yet , looking back , it seems to me that he meant very little in my childhood . Ow- ing perhaps to my mother's stern ascendency , I never knew the sweetness of an entire intimacy ...
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... Ernest . She always spoke of him with an acrid writhing of the lips , pretended to forget his name , re- ferred to him as " your young friend - you know — the one who has such provincial manners . " It was disloyal but I did not mind ...
... Ernest . She always spoke of him with an acrid writhing of the lips , pretended to forget his name , re- ferred to him as " your young friend - you know — the one who has such provincial manners . " It was disloyal but I did not mind ...
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... Ernest Bonnet I first confided the plan of my book on the " Acquiring of Magnetic Force . " It was on an afternoon in December of the year 1876. We were passing the statue of Balzac , the master on his pedestal crouched brooding with ...
... Ernest Bonnet I first confided the plan of my book on the " Acquiring of Magnetic Force . " It was on an afternoon in December of the year 1876. We were passing the statue of Balzac , the master on his pedestal crouched brooding with ...
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... Ernest and I would walk far out into the country . He would tell me of his sen- timental adventures , of ladies who pined for him — all lies . But I pretended to believe him so that we could talk of love as though we knew it . I ...
... Ernest and I would walk far out into the country . He would tell me of his sen- timental adventures , of ladies who pined for him — all lies . But I pretended to believe him so that we could talk of love as though we knew it . I ...
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Page 28 - Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." But he knoweth not that the dead are there ; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
Page 168 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Page 147 - For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, And that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Page 70 - Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house : lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel...
Page 226 - And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Page 162 - Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women.
Page 3 - Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past.
Page 266 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 256 - Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Page 55 - The first wrote, Wine is the strongest. The second wrote, The king is strongest. The third wrote, Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.