Castle Warlock, 第 1 巻

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London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1882 - 379 ページ
 

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25 ページ - A shadow of indignation passed over Grizzie's rippled, rather than wrinkled face, but she said nothing. There was a time to speak and a time to be silent; nor was Grizzie indebted to Solomon, but to her own experience and practice, for the wisdom of the saw. Only the
276 ページ - hard that the sins of the fathers should be visited on the children! Before God, I have enough to do with my own, let alone my
118 ページ - Here is one :— Make not of thy heart a casket, Opening seldom, quick to close; But of bread a wide-mouthed basket, And a cup that overflows. Here is another :— The gadfly makes the horse run swift: " Speed," quoth the gadfly, " is my gift.
67 ページ - There is scarce a money-making man who does not believe poverty the cousin, if not the child of fault; and the more unscrupulous, within the law, a man has been in making his money, the more he regards the man who seems to have lost the race he has won, as somehow or other to blame. "People with
91 ページ - When a man comes to trust in God thoroughly, he shrinks from castle-building, lest his faintest fancy should run counter to that loveliest Will; but a boy's dreams are nevertheless a part of his education. And the true heart will not leave the blessed conscience out even in its dreams. Those of Cosmo were
147 ページ - recourse to the superstitious and distasteful idea that any unseen power, with a weakness called a special providence, was interested in the matter. But foolishness such as theirs is apt to increase with years
188 ページ - and went, followed by Agnes, who locked the door behind her, and put the key in her pocket. It was indeed a wild night. The wind was rushing from the north, full of
221 ページ - and proceeded to pluck and otherwise prepare it for the fire. Having last of all split it open from end to end, so turning it into something not unlike an heraldic double eagle, she approached the fire, the fowl in one hand, the gridiron in the other. " I doobt I maun get his lordship to sit a wee back frae the fire,
218 ページ - Bring a glass. You should have brought the glasses first. Bring three; I like to change my glass. Make haste, will you! " The laird did make haste, smiling at the exigence of his visitor. Lord Mergwain listened to the glug-glug in the long neck of the decanter as
157 ページ - as imperfections, letting Cosmo see plainly that he understood how he had come to go wrong. Such an education as Mr. Simon was thus attempting with Cosmo, is hardly to be

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