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... It was the figure of a woman , with her head bowed on her hands , as if she deeply felt - what we have been endeavouring to convey into our feeble description 14 ROMANCE OF MONTE BENI . THE BRONZE PONTIFF'S BENEDICTION.
... It was the figure of a woman , with her head bowed on her hands , as if she deeply felt - what we have been endeavouring to convey into our feeble description 14 ROMANCE OF MONTE BENI . THE BRONZE PONTIFF'S BENEDICTION.
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... felt to be preferable , in certain conditions of the heart , to the remote- ness of a desert or the depths of an untrodden wood . Hatred , love , or whatever kind of too intense emotion , even indifference , where emotion has once been ...
... felt to be preferable , in certain conditions of the heart , to the remote- ness of a desert or the depths of an untrodden wood . Hatred , love , or whatever kind of too intense emotion , even indifference , where emotion has once been ...
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... felt descending upon them from his outstretched hand ; he approved by look and gesture the pledge of a deep union that had passed under his auspices . CHAPTER III . HILDA'S TOWER . WHEN We have once THE BRONZE PONTIFF'S BENEDICTION . 29.
... felt descending upon them from his outstretched hand ; he approved by look and gesture the pledge of a deep union that had passed under his auspices . CHAPTER III . HILDA'S TOWER . WHEN We have once THE BRONZE PONTIFF'S BENEDICTION . 29.
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... felt her own spotlessness impugned . Had there been but a single friend — or , not a friend , since friends were no longer to be con- fided in , after Miriam had betrayed her trust- but , had there been any calm , wise mind , any ...
... felt her own spotlessness impugned . Had there been but a single friend — or , not a friend , since friends were no longer to be con- fided in , after Miriam had betrayed her trust- but , had there been any calm , wise mind , any ...
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... felt conscious of the present dim- ness of an insight , which she once possessed in more than ordinary measure . She had lost- and she trembled lest it should have departed for ever ― the faculty of appreciating those great works of art ...
... felt conscious of the present dim- ness of an insight , which she once possessed in more than ordinary measure . She had lost- and she trembled lest it should have departed for ever ― the faculty of appreciating those great works of art ...
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