The Burgomaster's Family: Or, Weal and Woe in a Little WorldScribner, Armstrong & Company, 1873 - 195 Seiten |
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... entered much into society , and being gifted with a great powers of observation , she had op- portunities of becoming thoroughly con- versant with the habits and feelings of the She is the wife of M. van Walrée , gentleman engaged in an ...
... entered much into society , and being gifted with a great powers of observation , she had op- portunities of becoming thoroughly con- versant with the habits and feelings of the She is the wife of M. van Walrée , gentleman engaged in an ...
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... entered it well recom- mended . But the world she was about to enter was not a great one - the world of the provincial town of Dilburg , of which her father was burgomaster ; a little town - like whirl round in a small circle ; where ...
... entered it well recom- mended . But the world she was about to enter was not a great one - the world of the provincial town of Dilburg , of which her father was burgomaster ; a little town - like whirl round in a small circle ; where ...
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... entered with her . yet on both sides a certain timidity is felt It was a large room with glass doors which makes the conversation turn at first opening into a garden . Near one of these on questions relating to the journey and open ...
... entered with her . yet on both sides a certain timidity is felt It was a large room with glass doors which makes the conversation turn at first opening into a garden . Near one of these on questions relating to the journey and open ...
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... entered his dwelling . The children , who fortune , for all that . felt for her more respect than love , were Mina had also a life's dream which never on that confidential footing with her hitherto had not been realized . She was which ...
... entered his dwelling . The children , who fortune , for all that . felt for her more respect than love , were Mina had also a life's dream which never on that confidential footing with her hitherto had not been realized . She was which ...
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... entered , and only came to his But Otto did not notice the dog . His senses when she left the room . Never whole attention was fixed on the young yet had he been so much struck with the lady who stood in the doorway . beauty of a woman ...
... entered , and only came to his But Otto did not notice the dog . His senses when she left the room . Never whole attention was fixed on the young yet had he been so much struck with the lady who stood in the doorway . beauty of a woman ...
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The Burgomaster's Family: Or Weal and Woe in a Little World (Classic Reprint) Christine Muller Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquaintance Amsterdam answer Arnheim Arnold asked aunt Beckley Brummen Bruno Eversberg Burgomaster Welters calm Celine Celine's chair cheeks child cold countenance counting-house Cousin Emmy dark daughter dear death Dilburg door dress Elizabeth Emmy Emmy's emotion entered expression eyes face father fear feeling felt foundry Friesland gave Geele give hand happy head heart hope hour husband Javanese kiss knew lady laugh letter lingen lips look mamma marriage married Mary matter mind Miss Potter Montpellier morning mother Muller never once Otto Welters Otto's painful pale papa passed passion recollection round seemed Seyna silence sitting Siword Hiddema smile Sollingen sorrow speak spoke Stein Stellenburg stood strange tears tell things thought tion tone took town turbed up-stairs uttered voice walked whilst whole wife William de Graaff wish words young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 4 - L'homme est un apprenti, la douleur est son maître, Et nul ne se connaît tant qu'il n'a pas souffert. C'est une dure loi, mais une loi suprême, Vieille comme le monde et la fatalité, Qu'il nous faut du malheur recevoir le baptême, Et qu'à ce triste prix tout doit être acheté.
Seite 179 - Bruno's marriage, and of the finding of the letters on her wedding-day. . . . He did not interrupt her. He let her tell him all, but his countenance was pale and rigid, and he held his teeth fast set, as if a struggle was going on within him, to which he did not venture to give the smallest expression. When Emmy had finished, he gently released her from his arms and made her sit by him. He then got up and walked up and down the room two or three times in silence, till he came and stood before her,...
Seite 179 - It was one of those warm, sunny September days with the fresh bracing air which distinguish autumn. The height of the season was over for Sollingen. Most of the visitors of the hotel had gone to their homes, and the few families still remaining there were on the point of leaving, and were enjoying the autumn afternoon, drinking their coffee in the broad verandah which extended along the front of the house. Siword walked slowly along the verandah, and as he bowed to the visitors he cast a long, searching...