 | Ernest Edwin Speight - 1900 - 328 pages
...> and, as much as children could nderstand, I explained to them what coyness, and 1'fficulty, anc* denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning...Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-pre-entment, that I became in doubt which of them 'tood there before me, or whose that bright hair... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1901 - 120 pages
...years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n; first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality...gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to 8 my view, receding, and still receding, till nothing at last but two mournful features were seen in... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1901 - 258 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I 10 courted the fair Alice W n; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of 15 representment that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 346 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, ' I courted the fair Alice W n ; and as much as ' children could understand, I explained to them what ' coyness and...representment that I became in doubt which of them ' stood before me, or whose that bright hair was; and ' while I stood gazing, both the children gradually 'grew... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W—n ; and as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial, meant in maidens—when suddenly turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 882 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W. : and as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in donbt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was ; and while I stood gazing,... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...eyes with such a reality of representment, that I beoame in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was ; and while I stood... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 pages
...sometimes 25 in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, 30 that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was ; and... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 440 pages
...in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n; and, as eyes with such a reality of representment that I became...stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was. While I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding,... | |
 | 1905 - 474 pages
...sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and...stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was. While I stood gazing, both the children gradually grew fainter to my view, receding, and still receding,... | |
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Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens... 
