The Parliamentary Novels, 第 6 巻Dodd, Mead, 1893 |
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angry answer asked aunt Barrington Erle believe better Blankenberg Bonteen Cabinet Minister course dear dine dinner doubt Downing Street Duchess of Omnium duel Duke of Omnium Duke's Earl everything eyes father feeling felt give Grace Gresham hand happy heard heart honour hope husband Ireland Irish Killaloe knew Lady Baldock Lady Blood Lady Cantrip Lady Glencora Lady Laura Laurence Fitzgibbon live London look Lord Brentford Lord Cantrip Lord Chiltern Lord Fawn Loughlinter lover Madame Goesler Madame Max Goesler marriage married Mary Flood Jones mean mind Miss Effingham Monk Monk's morning never once Oswald Palliser Park Lane Parliament party perhaps Phineas Finn quarrel question regret resign Saulsby seat sitting speak spoke suppose sure talk tell tenant-right thing thought told truth understand Violet Effingham walked Walter Morrison wife wish woman word young
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36 ページ - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that ; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a
266 ページ - ... niece's life a burden to her, and, so intending, systematically work upon a principle to that effect. Lady Baldock, no doubt, desired to do her duty conscientiously. But the result was torture to poor Violet, and a strong conviction on the mind of each of the two ladies that the other was the most unreasonable being in the world. The aunt, in these days, had taken it into her head to talk of poor Lord Chiltern. This arose partly from a belief that the quarrel was final, and that, therefore, there...
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36 ページ - With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, —
128 ページ - Omnium, — and thus to cut away from himself, for the rest of his life, all honour, all peace of mind, all the grace of a noble end to a career which, if not very noble in itself, had received the praise of nobility ! And to do this for a thin, black-browed, yellow-visaged woman with ringlets and devil's eyes, and a beard on her upper lip, — a Jewess, — a creature of whose habits of life and manners of thought they all were absolutely ignorant ; who drank, possibly ; who might have been a forger,...
202 ページ - And I shall always remember how it began, Barrington," said Phineas, who was greatly moved by the energy and solicitude of his friend. " But, for God's sake, don't go and destroy it all by such mad perversity as this. They mean to do something next session.
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