In Bonds: A NovelA. Roman, 1867 - 247 pages |
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Acton Holmes Addie Adela Holmes answered arms Asenith Bray asked Aunt Matilda beautiful believe brother cabin carriage child Claude Leveredge cousin cried La Guerita Cuba Dolores door ejaculated Ellisville Enola entered Ernest Gordon excited exclaimed eyes Fabean face Fairview fear feel Forestville forget friends garden gaze girl glance Gordon Guerita DeCuba hand happy Harold DeGrey hear heard heart Holmsford hope hour husband kissed knew La Guerita DeCuba lady laughed leave lips looked mamma marry mind Minna Miss Adela Miss Holmes Miss Matilda mother muttered negro never niggers Norton Holmes papa passed passion poor quadroon Quakeress remember replied returned La Guerita Rita Rufus Russell seemed shame silent slave slavery smiled soul speak stood strange tears tell thee thing Thornton Leslie thought told turned Victor voice whispered wife woman words young
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Page 80 - What forged her cruel chain of moods, What set her feet in solitudes, And held the love within her mute, What mingled madness in the blood, A life-long discord and annoy, Water of tears with oil of joy, And hid within the folded bud Perversities of flower and fruit.
Page 374 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 154 - Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me : Fight against them that fight against me.
Page 281 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 53 - I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot ; There flowers or weeds at will may grow, So I behold them not : It is enough for me to prove That what I loved, and long must love, Like common earth can rot ; To me there needs no stone to tell, 'Tis Nothing that I loved so well.
Page 437 - And yet I know past all doubting, truly — A knowledge greater than grief can dim— I know, as he loved, he will love me duly — Yea better — e'en better than I love him. And as I walk by the vast calm river, The awful river so dread to see, I say, ' Thy breadth and thy depth for ever Are bridged by his thoughts that cross to me.
Page 24 - Thou wilt need no heavier, thou shalt feel no worse. I see the cloud and the tempest near ; The voice of the troubled tide I hear ; The torrent of sorrow, the sea of grief, The rushing waves of a wretched life : V Thy bosom's bark on the surge I see, And, maiden, thy loved one is there with thee.
Page 53 - AND thou art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal birth ; And form so soft, and charms so rare, Too soon return'd to Earth ! Though earth received them in her bed, And o'er the spot the crowd may tread In carelessness or mirth, There is an eye which could not brook A moment on that grave to look.
Page 187 - Nae langer she wept^— her tears were a' spent,— Despair it was come, and she thought it content; She thought it content, but her cheek it grew pale, And she droop'd, like a lily broke down by the hail.
Page 199 - Remember the old man, and what he was Years after he had heard this heavy news. His bodily frame had been from youth to age Of an unusual strength.