The Burgomaster's Family: Or, Weal and Woe in a Little WorldScribner, Armstrong & Company, 1873 - 195 Seiten |
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... father's profession . On coming to Amsterdam her father re- tired from the service , and for twelve years practised as a physician in that city with much success and reputation . At the end of that time a severe illness obliged him to ...
... father's profession . On coming to Amsterdam her father re- tired from the service , and for twelve years practised as a physician in that city with much success and reputation . At the end of that time a severe illness obliged him to ...
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... father , who felt himself little fitted to superintend the completion of her educa- tion . The aunt who took charge of her was " Good - bye , Miss Emmy ! God bless one of those women to be found in almost you ! Think now and then of old ...
... father , who felt himself little fitted to superintend the completion of her educa- tion . The aunt who took charge of her was " Good - bye , Miss Emmy ! God bless one of those women to be found in almost you ! Think now and then of old ...
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... father's house . Emmy had been two years with her aunt when the news came that her father was about to marry widow De Graaff . The widow had three children , two daughters and a son . Elizabeth de Graaff , the youngest , in former times ...
... father's house . Emmy had been two years with her aunt when the news came that her father was about to marry widow De Graaff . The widow had three children , two daughters and a son . Elizabeth de Graaff , the youngest , in former times ...
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... father ; but , from vari - book fall , and stuck his eyeglass in the ous causes , nothing came of this plan for ... father's house , nance , compensated for the irregularity of where was her natural position . Emmy her features . Yes ...
... father ; but , from vari - book fall , and stuck his eyeglass in the ous causes , nothing came of this plan for ... father's house , nance , compensated for the irregularity of where was her natural position . Emmy her features . Yes ...
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... father's house than I like , but it is a pleasure to me to be in the family circle ; and often when I come there of an evening , and find the family sitting sociably round the tea - table , then I think of the loneliness of the parlor ...
... father's house than I like , but it is a pleasure to me to be in the family circle ; and often when I come there of an evening , and find the family sitting sociably round the tea - table , then I think of the loneliness of the parlor ...
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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...