Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland: Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative, Volumes 3-4W. Scott, 1888 |
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... smile - but it was a smile where the light of the soul was not - more dismal , more vacant than the laugh of idiotcy ! Think , then , how unlike they were to the rainbows of the soul which I had seen radiate the countenance of my ...
... smile - but it was a smile where the light of the soul was not - more dismal , more vacant than the laugh of idiotcy ! Think , then , how unlike they were to the rainbows of the soul which I had seen radiate the countenance of my ...
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... smiling to beguile my care , and fondly watching every expression of my countenance , as a mother watches over her sick child ; and the half - concealed tear following the smile when her efforts proved unavailing ; and my heart smote me ...
... smiling to beguile my care , and fondly watching every expression of my countenance , as a mother watches over her sick child ; and the half - concealed tear following the smile when her efforts proved unavailing ; and my heart smote me ...
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... smile , she gently placed her purse my hands . in ' Good Heavens ! ' I exclaimed , striking my forehead , and the purse dropped upon the floor ; ' am I reduced to this ? Never , Catherine ! -never ! Let me perish in my penury ; but ...
... smile , she gently placed her purse my hands . in ' Good Heavens ! ' I exclaimed , striking my forehead , and the purse dropped upon the floor ; ' am I reduced to this ? Never , Catherine ! -never ! Let me perish in my penury ; but ...
Contents
WIDOW OF DUNSKAITII Hugh Miller | 1 |
THE WHITSOME TRAGEDY John Mackay Wilson | 20 |
THE SURGEONS TALES Alexander Leighton | 53 |
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