The lost link, Volume 1; Volume 2671868 |
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Popular passages
Page 159 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 226 - NEVER any more While I live, Need I hope to see his face As before. Once his love grown chill, Mine may strive — Bitterly we re-embrace, Single still.
Page 203 - Had I but all of them, thee and thy treasures, What a wild crowd of invisible pleasures! To carry pure death in an earring, a casket, A signet, a fan-mount, a filigree basket!
Page 50 - I agree with him in that regard, that a man has a perfect right to do as he likes with his own, but if his action with his own money is illegal he should be restrained.
Page 242 - He buried his face in his hands. When he looked up again it was whiter — more deeply furrowed.
Page 270 - There was a silence for a minute or so, and then, in a low voice, Mary began to speak.