 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 558 pagina’s
...lay. In about three mornings after I had first seen her, I had, by an invitation to breakfast with me, got up two young men to join me in my walk, and our...the girl for me!' said I, when we had got out of her hearing."1 To her he plighted faith. After eight years of service in the army, and his return to England,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1876 - 714 pagina’s
...lay. In about three mornings after I had first seen her I had, by an invitation to breakfast with me, got up two young men to join me in my walk ; and our...light, but she was out on the snow, scrubbing out a washing tub. "That's the girl for me," said I, when we had got out of her hearing. One of these young... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pagina’s
...lay. In about three mornings after I had first seen her, I had, by an invitation to breakfast with me, got up two young men to join me in my walk; and our...road lay by the house of her father and mother. It wu hardly light, but she was out on the snow scrubbing out a washing-tub. ' That's the girl foi me,'... | |
 | 1881 - 426 pagina’s
...lay. In about three mornings after I had first seen her, I had, by an invitation to breakfast with me. got up two young men to join me in my walk ; and our...me !' said I, when we had got out of her hearing. ... At the end of about six months, my regiment, and I along with it, were removed to FrederickUm,... | |
 | 1872 - 586 pagina’s
...lay. In about three mornings after I had first seen her, I had, by an invitation to breakfast with me, got up two young men to join me in my walk, and our...light, but she was out on the snow scrubbing out a washing tub. " That's the girl for me," said I when we had got out of her hearing. One of these young... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1883 - 616 pagina’s
...In about three mornings after I had first seen her, I had, by an invitation to breakfast with her, got up two young men to join me in my walk; and our...for me,' said I, when we had got out of her hearing. From the day that I had first spoken to her, I never had a thought of her ever being the wife of any... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1883 - 426 pagina’s
...lay. In about three mornings after I had first seen her, I had, by invitation to breakfast with me, got up two young men to join me in my walk ; and our...light, but she was out on the snow scrubbing out a wash-tub. ' That's the girl for me,' said I, when we had got out of her hearing. One of these young... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1888 - 334 pagina’s
...In about three mornings after I had first seen her, I had, by an invitation to breakfast with her, got up two young men to join me in my walk ; and our...the snow, scrubbing out a washing-tub. 'That's the t girl for me,' said I, when we had got out of her hearing. S From the day that I had first spoken... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pagina’s
...dews ; but save me from the desk of an attorney. COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE. When I first saw my wife, she was thirteen years old and I was within a month...hearing. One of these young men came to England soon afterward, and he who kept an inn in Yorkshire came over to Preston at the time of the election to... | |
 | 1890 - 830 pagina’s
...morning he was up early, and almost before it was light passed the sergeant's house. There she was on the snow, scrubbing out a washingtub. " That's the girl for me," again cried Cobbett, although she was not more than fourteen, and he was nearly twenty-one. " From... | |
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I had by an invitation to breakfast got up two young men to join me in my walk, and our road lay by the house of her father and mother. It was hardly light, but she was out on the snow scrubbing out a washing-tub. " That's the girl for me," said I when... 
