Wherever she went she seemed to take joy and brightness with her. In the cottages of the poor her fair face shone like a sunbeam. She would sit for a quarter of an hour talking to some old woman, and apparently as pleased with the admiration of a toothless... The Quarterly Review - Side 4911863Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| 1863 - 622 sider
...went she seemed to take joy and brightness with her. In the cottages of the poor her fair face Bhone like a sunbeam. She would sit for a quarter of an...burst out into senile raptures with her grace, her beauty, and her kindliness, such as she never bestowed upon the vicar'a wife, who half fed and clothed... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1862 - 324 sider
...amiable and gentle nature always to be light-hearted, happy, and contented under any circumstances. Wherever she went she seemed to take joy and brightness...burst out into senile raptures with her grace, her beauty, and her kindliness, such as she never bestowed upon the vicar's wife, who half fed and clothed... | |
| Mrs. M. E. Braddon Maxwell - 1862 - 682 sider
...amiable and gentle nature always to be light-hearted, happy, and contented under any circumstances. Wherever she went she seemed to take joy and brightness...burst out into senile raptures with her grace, her beauty, and her kindliness, such as she never bestowed upon the vicar's wife, who half fed and clothed... | |
| 1863 - 616 sider
...to be employed on better materials. It is difficult to do justice by extracts to a work whose chieT merit consists in the cleverness with which an interesting...nothing behind her (for her poor salary gave no scope to hor benevolence), the old woman would burst out into senile raptures with her grace, her beauty, and... | |
| 1863 - 606 sider
...which is sustained to the end. The skill of the builder deserves to be employed on better materials. ' Wherever she went she seemed to take joy and brightness...her benevolence), the old woman would burst out into into senile raptures with her grace, her beauty, and her kindliness, such as she never bestowed upon... | |
| 1863 - 646 sider
...quarter of an hour talking to some old woman, and apparently ae pleased with the admiration of a toothlee crone as if she had been listening to the compliments...benevolence) , the old woman would burst out into senile raptnrcs with her grace, her beauty, and her kindliness, such as she never bestowed upon the vicar's... | |
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