 | 1879 - 616 pagina’s
...have been spared at once the shame of her father's sin, and the agony of her mother's dishonor ? " Grief," said young Nick, when the clock pointed to...was dinner-time —" grief, with waxiness, makes a man hungry. Call down Alison, mother. Dinner will be on the table in a minute or two. As for the first... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1879 - 780 pagina’s
...away at once : the dream of a fond and worthy mother, the belief in a noble and honourable father. ' Grief,' said young Nick, when the clock pointed to...which was dinner-time, ' grief, with waxiness, makes a man hungry. Call down Alison, mother. Dinner will be on the table in a minute or two. As for the first-cousin-once-remo... | |
 | Walter Besant, James Rice - 1888 - 442 pagina’s
...at once : the dream of a fond and worthy mother, the belief in a noble and honourable father. liad Anthony Hamblin foreseen this sorrow ? Had there been...which was dinner-time, " grief, with waxiness, makes a man hungry. Call down Alison, mother. Dinner will be on the table in a minute or two. As for the first... | |
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Anthony Hamblin foreseen this sorrow ? Had there been no middle way possible, by which the girl could have been spared at once the shame of her father's sin, and the agony of her mother's dishonour ? ' Grief,' said young Nick, when the clock pointed to... 