... towards
their bright home of lasting rest; we know, Heaven help us! that the best and
fairest of our kind, too often fade in blooming.’
There were tears in the eyes of the gentle girl, as these ... echoed the doctor. ‘Blathers and Duff, themselves, could make
nothing of it.’
Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search, they did not
desist until the coming on...
... signs of gladness as well as grief; but those which coursed down
Rose’s face, as she sat pensively at the window, still gazing in the same
direction, seemed to tell more of sorrow than of joy. ... secret and explicit in his communications. Mr. Maylie took
leave of him, with many assurances of his regard and protection.
The doctor was in the chaise; Giles (who, it had been arrang...
... victims of
similar infirmities. The remark is made, indeed, rather in his favour than
otherwise, and with a view of impressing the reader with a just sense of his
qualifications for office. ... off of his hat to the opposite
end of the room. This preliminary proceeding laying bare his head, the
expert lady, clasping him tightly round the throat with one hand, inflicted a
showe...
... flow of
joy he could not sympathise. The event of the day that is, the return of
Diana and Mary pleased him; but the accompaniments of that event, the
glad tumult, the garrulous glee of reception ... took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of
merry domestic dissipation. The air of the moors, the freedom of home, the
dawn of prosperity, acted on Diana and M...
... incapable of wishing any one
ill; but, as I am your kinswoman, I should desire somewhat more of affection
than that sort of general philanthropy you extend to mere strangers."
" ;Of course," ... earnestness, marked his
enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter. The reader believed
his name was already written in the Lamb's book of life, and...
...
inspiration. The wondrous shock of feeling had come like the earthquake
which shook the foundations of Paul and Silas's prison; it had opened the
doors of the soul's cell and loosed ... situated in the midst of scenery
whose green hedges and large fields and low pastoral hills (how mild of
feature and verdant of hue compared with the stern North-Midland moors of...
... more
absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of
my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do of
the pulsation of the heart that beats ... apple of his eye. He saw nature he saw books through
me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting into words
the effect of field, tree, town, river,...
... ‘So the only
proofs of the boy’s identity lie at the bottom of the river, and the old hag that
received them from the mother is rotting in her coffin.’ They laughed, and
talked of his success ... The
miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low
haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the
shadow of the gallows...
... young lady, to leave entirely out of the question
that goodness and benevolence of which you speak, and of which nobody
’And he’d uncommonly like to see any man offer to do it,’ responded Mr. ... town, of course,’ said Mrs. Maylie, ‘while there remains the
slightest prospect of prosecuting this inquiry with a chance of success. I will
spare neither trouble nor expense in behal...
... could hear the cry of Fire! mingled with the ringing of an alarm-bell, the
fall of heavy bodies, and the crackling of flames as they twined round some
new obstacle, and shot aloft as though refreshed ...
CHAPTER XLVIII
THE FLIGHT OF SIKES
Of all bad deeds that, under cover of the darkness, had been committed with
wide London’s bounds since night hung over it, that wa...