... looks and manners
were carefully watched. On the contrary, they were rather boisterously merry at
the wedding, and poor Mrs Gibson it was that died of consumption, four or five
Wives and Daughters ... blind and deaf, and rheumatic as he might be, he
was still Mr Hall, the doctor who could heal all their ailments - unless they died
meanwhile - and he had no right to speak o...
... sate by Lady Cumnor, while the latter took
her afternoon nap.
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CHAPTER 9
The Widower And The Widow
Mrs Kirkpatrick was only too happy to accept ...
'Don't you think you could make some errand to Hollingford, and see Mr
Gibson, and ask him to come round this way some day, and make a call on Lady
Cumnor?'...
... in the eyes particularly?' he asked again, with
some impatience.
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CHAPTER 13
Molly Gibson's New Friends
Time was speeding on; it was ... under five -and- twenty. Mr Preston was very handsome, and knew
it. He was a fair man, with light-brown hair and whiskers; grey, roving, well-
shaped eyes, with lashes darker than his...
... had
wanted to speak about, and she had not heard half of what she had expected to
duchess and Lady Alice, and Mr and Mrs Grey, and Lord Albert Monson and
his sister, and my old friend Captain ... Wives and Daughters
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Hollingford In A Bustle
All Hollingford felt as if there was ... could see
her and Lady Harriet quietly, and...
... who only came into the county in Queen Anne's time.'
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CHAPTER 27
Father And Sons
Things were not going on any better at Hamley Hall. ... fire, pen in hand, looking over
one of his poems, and dotting the i's, crossing the t's, and now and then pausing
over the alteration of a word.
principles of my fami...
... acquired knowledge, and at the same time, great natural powers
of comparison, and classification of facts; he had shown' himself to be an
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... served for seven years, and seven years more,' was safe
and sacred in his heart. It was very bad, this going away, and wishing her good-
by for two long years; and...
... former days in the
most winning manner.
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CHAPTER 2-P2
There was a large party of gentlemen and ladies sitting round the decked table,
in the ... are so beautiful! and I lost myself,
and sate down to rest under a great tree; and Lady Cuxhaven and that Mrs
Kirkpatrick came; and Mrs Kirkpatrick brought me some lunch, a...
... were so far arranged, and the real advantages were so
great that he thought it was best to take no notice, but even to submit to the
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CHAPTER 4-P2
Mrs ... governor's fun, and the tamarinds, and
something else that I know of, I would run off to India. I hate stifling rooms,
and sick people, and the smell of drugs, and the...
... be sure. Come in, Mr Coxe. I was rather wanting to talk to you about that
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CHAPTER 5-P1
Calf-Love
One day, for some reason or other, Mr Gibson came ... of
breaking out into laughter, and that red-haired, red-faced Mr Coxe was redder
and fiercer than ever, while his whole aspect and ways betrayed indignation and
anger.
&apos...
...
talkativeness; his constant flow of words upon indifferent subjects was a wonder
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CHAPTER 8-P1
Drifting Into Danger
On Thursday, the quiet country household ... optimes, and not where he had expected, and
had led us to expect, But the squire has never been at college, and does not
understand college terms, and he has been...