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Mr. Bailey had finally, after some management, got Bianca quite to himself, and, discovering that they had mutual friends, and that she liked those parts of his writings which he considered the best, the two were quite over the threshold of a ceremonious acquaintance, and talk...
If Mr. Vane and the Signora felt any difficulty in meeting each other the next morning, it was soon over. _Ce n’est que le premier pas qui coûte_, and that one step brought them...
2. CHAPTER VI.Yes, life was beginning to grow beautiful to them――beautiful in the sweet, natural sense. Here and there a buckle that held the burden of it was loosed, here and there a flower...
7. CHAPTER IX.Everybody knows the great sights of Rome by repute, if not by sight, and it may safely be said that no one cares to hear more of them in the way of description. Indeed, seeing t...
4. CHAPTER VII.The next morning coffee was brought to the bed-rooms at the first peep of dawn, and when the little party went out for their walk the sun had only just begun to set the sea-line...
3. CHAPTER VI.Bianca’s birthday coming, they celebrated it by a little trip into the country. It was getting late for excursions, the weather being hot even for the last of May. But on the da...
12. CHAPTER X.They were rather late with their coffee the next morning, and while they were taking it the bells of Santa Pudentiana, close to them, were ringing a _morto_――one, two, three, an...
5. Part I. Logic. London: Burns & Oates. 1876.Quite a number of persons have recently undertaken the laudable but difficult task of preparing elementary works on philosophy. Cornoldi’s Lectures or Lessons in Philosophy are...
11. ACT V.――The curtain rises on a prison chamber in the Tower, whereNorthumberland, jubilant over his certain liberation, calls upon Jane and Guilford to rejoice at their renascent fortunes. The pure-souled Jane refuses the crown once for all, a...
1. CHAPTER IV.――CONTINUED.Mr. Bailey had finally, after some management, got Bianca quite to himself, and, discovering that they had mutual friends, and that she liked those parts of his writings which h...
10. ACT III.――We have Northumberland giving up the game and resolving tokneel for pardon: but all in a spirit of hypocrisy. Accordingly, he comes with his men to the queen on Wanstead Heath, and throws up his cap, crying: “God save Queen Mary!” But...
8. Part I. opens with the death of Edward VI., and ends with theIn the first Act John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, contrives, with the help of Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, to work upon the conscience of the schoolboy king, till he s...
9. ACT II.――Queen Mary, after reaching Framlingham by a perilousnocturnal ride, receives Elizabeth with truest affection, and then, together with her, goes to meet Sir Thomas Wyatt, Captain Brett, and their insurrectionary followers. A parle...