Joan Haste, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1894 - 425 pages |
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Page 188 - There is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and before the spring much may be changed.
Page 101 - I peace, had brought irritation, was cause enough to alarm the most courageous young woman who ever rushed into the maelstrom of matrimony. When they had reached home, she flung herself into a chair and covered her face with her hands. " Catherine ! " said she solemnly ; " what am I to do ? I don't like church.
Page 138 - So please, you'll just stand for once, and listen to what I have to say to you. If you are wet you can take my cloak. I don't mind the rain, and I seem to want some cooling.
Page 170 - It is not to be expected of any man that he should come into a family of which the head will be a bankrupt, who insists upon marrying a barmaid.