The New Magdalen: A NovelHarper & Brothers, 1875 - 325 pagina's "The New Magdalen" delivers an enjoyable story of assumed identities, heart-breaking clashes between desire and conventions of society and a social commentary of the constraints of Birth and Life |
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... HORACE HOLMCROFT TO MISS GRACE ROSEBERRY · • . 377 11 . LETTER FROM MISS GRACE ROSEBERRY TO MR . HORACE HOLMCROFT • • 385 III . LETTER FROM MR . HORACE HOLMCROFT TO MISS GRACE ROSEBERRY . • • • 387 IV . EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF THE ...
... HORACE HOLMCROFT TO MISS GRACE ROSEBERRY · • . 377 11 . LETTER FROM MISS GRACE ROSEBERRY TO MR . HORACE HOLMCROFT • • 385 III . LETTER FROM MR . HORACE HOLMCROFT TO MISS GRACE ROSEBERRY . • • • 387 IV . EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF THE ...
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... Horace Holmcroft . I shall be delighted to be of use to you , and I can be of use if you will let me . May I ask if you are travelling ? ' Mercy gathered the cloak which concealed her nurse's dress more closely round her , and committed ...
... Horace Holmcroft . I shall be delighted to be of use to you , and I can be of use if you will let me . May I ask if you are travelling ? ' Mercy gathered the cloak which concealed her nurse's dress more closely round her , and committed ...
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... Horace Holmcroft entered the room again , at the moment when Surgeon Wetzel's staring eyes were still fastened on her , waiting for her reply . ' I have not overrated my interest , ' he said , point- ing to a little slip of paper in his ...
... Horace Holmcroft entered the room again , at the moment when Surgeon Wetzel's staring eyes were still fastened on her , waiting for her reply . ' I have not overrated my interest , ' he said , point- ing to a little slip of paper in his ...
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... Horace Holmcroft looked up from the table . ' Mercy Merrick ? ' he said . Who is Mercy Merrick ? ' Surgeon Wetzel pointed to the corpse on the bed . ' I have found the name on the handkerchief , ' he said . This lady , it seems , had ...
... Horace Holmcroft looked up from the table . ' Mercy Merrick ? ' he said . Who is Mercy Merrick ? ' Surgeon Wetzel pointed to the corpse on the bed . ' I have found the name on the handkerchief , ' he said . This lady , it seems , had ...
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... Horace , smiling . She could only answer him by bowing her head . 6 He wrote ... Horace pointed to the paper in her hand . You can go where you like now , ' he ... Holmcroft , there was no knowing what the hateful old man might not say of ...
... Horace , smiling . She could only answer him by bowing her head . 6 He wrote ... Horace pointed to the paper in her hand . You can go where you like now , ' he ... Holmcroft , there was no knowing what the hateful old man might not say of ...
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Pagina 381 - Emanuel On Diamonds and Precious Stones ; their History, Value, and Properties ; with Simple Tests for ascertaining their Reality. By HARRY EMANUEL, FRGS With numerous Illustrations, Tinted and Plain. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, js.
Pagina 383 - Shelley's Early Poems, and Queen Mab, with Essay by LEIGH HUNT. Shelley's Later Poems : Laon and Cythna, &c. Shelley's Posthumous Poems, the Shelley Papers, &c. Shelley's Prose Works, including A Refutation of Deism, Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, &c.
Pagina 389 - Syntax's (Dr.) Three Tours: In Search of the Picturesque, in Search of Consolation, and in Search of a Wife. With the whole of ROWLANDSON'S droll page Illustrations in Colours and a Life of the Author by JC HOTTEN.
Pagina 380 - Cyclopaedia of Costume ; or, A Dictionary of Dress— Regal, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military — from the Earliest Period in England to the reign of George the Third. Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent, and a General History of the Costumes of the Principal Countries of Europe. By JR PLANCH®, Somerset Herald.
Pagina 385 - Complete in Three Vols. Vol. I. contains the Plays complete, including the doubtful ones; Vol. II. the Poems and Minor Translations, with an Introductory Essay by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.
Pagina 383 - LIFE IN LONDON : or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom.
Pagina 374 - Mr. Bardsley has faithfully consulted the original mediaeval documents and works from which the origin and development of surnames can alone be satisfactorily traced. He has furnished a valuable contribution to the literature of surnames, and we hope to hear more of him in this field,
Pagina 389 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Pagina 375 - More Worlds than One. The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian.
Pagina 388 - ROLL OF BATTLE ABBEY ; or, A List of the Principal Warriors who came over from Normandy with William the Conqueror, and Settled in this Country, AD 1066-7. Printed on fine plate paper, nearly three feet by two, with the principal Arms emblazoned in Gold and Colours. Price 5$. ROLL OF CAERLAVEROCK, the Oldest Heraldic Roll; including the Original Anglo-Norman Poem, and an English Translation of the MS.