The Duke's Children, 第 2 部Dodd, Mead, 1893 |
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American beauty American girl angry bets better bridge Captain Green certainly course Crummie-Toddie Custins dance dare say daughter dear dinner Dolly Longstaff Doncaster doubt duchess Duke of Omnium Duke's duty father feeling felt Finn fond Frank Tregear gentleman Gerald give glad gone hand heard heart hope horse Isabel Boncassen Killancodlem knew Lady Cantrip Lady Glencora Lady Mab Lady Mabel Grex looked Lord Popplecourt Lord Silverbridge lover Lupton Major Tifto marriage marry matter mean mind Miss Boncassen Miss Cass Miss Cassewary Montacute Jones morning never Newmarket Nidderdale Oh yes once orse papa pause perhaps Phineas Phineas Finn pleasant Pook pretty race Reginald Dobbes ring round Scotland seemed shooting sister speak spoke suppose sure talk tell thing thought told trouble truth turned understand verbridge walk wife wish woman word young lady
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2 ページ - ... I bethink myself, I have to beg your pardon ; — that I a stranger should ask you to sit down in your own club." " Don't mention it, my Lord Duke." " I am so unused to clubs, that I forgot where I was.
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11 ページ - ... ivory produced by teeth which are too perfect in a face which is otherwise poor ? Her nose at the base spread a little, — so that it was not purely Grecian. But who has ever seen a nose to be eloquent and expressive which did not so spread ? It was, I think, the vitality of her countenance, — the way in which she could speak with every feature, the command which she had of pathos, of humour, of sympathy, of satire, the assurance which she gave by every glance of her eye, every elevation of...
78 ページ - He had good looks of that sort which recommend themselves to pastors and masters, to elders and betters. He had regular features. He looked as though he were steady. He was not impatient nor rollicking. Silverbridge was also good-looking ; — but his good looks were such as would give a pang to the hearts of anxious mothers of daughters. Tregear was the handsomest man of the three ; — but then he looked as though he had no betters and did not care for his elders. Lord Popplecourt, though a very...
4 ページ - That every horse has a head, and that all did have tails till they were ill-used is the extent of my stable knowledge." " Very good indeed, my Lord Duke ; very good indeed! Ha, ha, ha, — all horses have heads, and all have tails! Heads and tails. Upon my word that is the best thing I have heard for a long time. I will do myself the honour of wishing your Grace good night.
115 ページ - ... everything, and Lord Nidderdale, whose wife had generously permitted him this recreation. The shooting was in the west of Perthshire, known as Crummie-Toddie, and comprised an enormous acreage of so-called forest and moor. Mr. Dobbes declared that nothing like it had as yet been produced in Scotland. Everything had been made to give way to deer and grouse. The thing had been managed so well that the tourist nuisance had been considerably abated. There was hardly a potato patch left in the district,...
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