The matrimonial vanity fair, by the author of 'Whitefriars'.1867 |
Common terms and phrases
answered Williams anxious Belmont blushed bowed break the bank breast Brown centimes chair commenced companion compelled cried croupier dark dead degra door East Lynne emotion entered eyes face fancy five napoleons fortune Frank Collins garçon gazing gentlemen girl glanced grasped hand head heart HESBA STRETTON hour hunchback knew laughed le bossu liams light lips look luck Malherbe Mam'selle Gautier man's Mascot ment mind Monsieur murmured Murray never night old Gautier once Paris passed paused PÈRE LA CHAISE perhaps pocket pocket hanging poor present remember reply Rosalie Rue Antoine Sarbotière Rue Colville seated seemed shook shrugged his shoulders shutters side silence smile Smuggs stood street suddenly teetotum tell terrible thought thousand francs told trembling turned upstairs uttered Villiers voice walked whilst whispered window young
Popular passages
Page 74 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 127 - There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy.
Page 144 - Sat, like a blooming Eastern bride, In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair; None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserve the fair.
Page 119 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, That, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Page 285 - ETC. ETC. This Magazine of light and choice reading will, from the commencement of the new volume, be conducted by the Author of " East Lynno," and will be published by Charles W. Wood, 13, Tavistock Street, Strand. The December number will commence the new volume. It will contain the opening chapters of a new three-volume story by the Author of "East Lynne," a story by Hesba Stretton, and various other papers.
Page 286 - Miss Stretton claims special praise for the art with which she suspends anticipation by present interest, that it may not encroach upon, and therefore mar the excitement of the situations, of which every chapter has one more or less good.
Page 158 - Pursy," said the woman; on which Mr. Benjamin Eliason came forth from a small room adjoining that at which she had knocked, breathing not of Araby the blest, but of bad tobacco. Eying me with a scrutinizing glance, and drawing a key from his pocket, he applied it to the lock, and in another moment I found myself standing by my friend Percy Mortimer, who rose, and rushed to meet me. A gaudy paper, bearing several stains of wine, and caricatures drawn in pen and ink, covered the walls of the chamber....
Page 135 - ... surprised when he took orders. To those who did know him it would have been a much greater surprise if he had done anything else. He was predestined for active service in the Church. We know now, what few suspected in his lifetime, that he had his Wanderjahre, a period of spiritual storm and stress through which he had to pass before he could attain to that permanent self, as he phrased it, to that sure outlook on life and his relation to it which was ever afterwards the mainspring of all he...