Miss Neville; a very amiable person, I am told, who will be well worth looking after if this invisible wife should ever turn up.' " ' Well, I declare, I think it would be too much to expect of him that he should ruin himself by acknowledging his marriage... Grantley Manor: A Tale - Page 268by Georgiana Fullerton - 1849 - 318 pagesFull view - About this book
| Literature - 1915 - 862 pages
...armies which attacked them with no better excuse than that they stood in the way of German ambitions, it would be too much to expect of him that he should write calmly of all that has happened during these months of rapine and bloodshed. The future historian,... | |
| Georgiana Fullerton - Religious fiction - 1847 - 326 pages
...do with his wife, then — burked her somewhere, or gagged her?" said Mr. Ausdon. "No, no; upon my word, that's all nonsense. I have known him all my...have bullied the wife to keep her quiet!" Mr. Ausdon lookedrather contemptuously at the last speaker, and, turning to Ginevra, said, " Can you imagine,... | |
| 1847 - 560 pages
...is suppressed.' " ' 0, there is a sister in the case, is there ? A Miss, or a Mrs. somebody ?' " ' Well, I declare, I think it would be too much to expect...acknowledging his marriage; but, if it really is true, how ho must have bullied the wife to keep her quiet!' "'Miss Neville; a very amiable person, I am told,... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1847 - 570 pages
...that case, be good in law, though you may think it founded on a most abominable injustice.' " ' 0, there is a sister in the case, is there ? A Miss,...secret under such circumstances ?' " It was impossible for her to speak ; she turned abruptly away, and at that moment the first notes of a loud bravura interrupted... | |
| Labor - 1910 - 596 pages
...Creek, at a salary of $100,000, to be tendered him by CW Post, he would be taking up no mean work. It would be too much to expect of him that he should succeed in such a colossal enterprise ; but being the most popular citizen in the United States today,... | |
| George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - Literature, Modern - 1906 - 778 pages
...said Dennis, motioning toward the writingtable, though without taking his eyes from her, as indeed it would be too much to expect of him that he should, "save and except the two or three little fellows that he must be seeing every day and has carried with... | |
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