Gertrude, Zväzok 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 - 248 strán (strany) |
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Strana 244 - ... soon after Gertrude's return to her family. " ' Don't you think there is a difference between relations and other people ? ' said Gertrude. " ' Not much ; only that if they are disagreeable, they are ten times worse than they would be as strangers, because you can't escape from them.' " ' Ah ! ' said Gertrude, ' that is the very point ; I know we cannot escape from them, and so, I suppose, it was intended we should make the best of them.
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Strana 2 - The house, an edifice of Grecian architecture, with no pretensions to beauty beyond a handsome Ionic colonnade, almost fronted the Priory ; and to the left, the eye, after passing over a few miles of wooded country, rested upon the outline of the low hills, which, receding one...