The Old House in the SquareG. Routledge, 1884 - 320 pages |
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Page 106 - Jude?" she said suddenly. He was leaning with his elbows on the table and his chin on his hands, looking into a futurity which seemed to be sketched out on the tablecloth. "Oh-nothing!" "You are 'father', you know. That's what they call the man who gives you away.
Page 87 - He could not see her face, for her back was turned to him...
Page 146 - But afterwards, when nurse had taken the children away, his mother glanced anxiously towards him as he stood looking out of the window with his hands in his pockets, whistling still. "Roger, your father did not know you were in the room,
Page 17 - She put her arms round his neck and pulled his head down to her, there on the top of the hill with Queens Wilde and all Madder lying below.
Page 210 - I don't know why I am telling you all this," he said, pulling himself up with a short laugh,
Page 52 - I am afraid you got out of bed with the wrong foot foremost this morning.
Page 138 - I don't see what right you have to say anything of the sort...
Page 123 - What are you going to do with it, now you have got it ? " She eyed her plate doubtfully, and then she eyed her uncle doubtfully.