 ... comforts of life as myself, or even as my husband. My charities, they were called— they seemed to me the payment of my debts to my fellow-creatures — were abundant. Lord Reginald peremptorily checked them ; but as I had a large allowance for my...  The Honey-moon - الصفحة 93بواسطة Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1837عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 412
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 | 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...content to think of them, and hope for a reunion, and to acquiesce in the present separation. Still numy things pained me : I had, poor myself, been brought...affirm that I did wrong ; that to please my husband and do honour to his rank, was my first duty. Yet, shall I confess it ? even now, rendered miserable by... | |
 | 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...charity impelled me, but that I could not acquire a taste for spending money on myself — I dislike the apparatus of wealth. My husband called my ideas...I would not, spend twenty guineas on a gown, while 1 could dress so many sad faces in smiles, and bring so much joy to so many drooping hearts, by the... | |
 | G. S. Munroe - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...of feeding the hungry. Nor was it only that charity impelled me, but that I could not acquire a 23* taste for spending money on myself — I disliked...affirm that I did wrong ; that to please my husband and do honor to his rank, was my first duty. Yet, shall I confess it ? even now, rendered miserable by... | |
 | Emily Percival - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...of feeding the hungry. Nor was it only that charity impelled me, but that I could not acquire a 23* taste for spending money on myself — I disliked...affirm that I did wrong ; that to please my husband and do honor to his rank, was my first duty. Yet, shall I confess it ? even now, rendered miserable by... | |
 | Emily Percival - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...and reproved me severely, when, instead of outshining all competitors at a fete, I appeared dourdily dressed, and declared warmly that I could not, I would...affirm that I did wrong ; that to please my husband and do honor to his rank, was my first duty. Yet, shall I confess it? even now, rendered miserable by this... | |
 | 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...myself, or even as my husband. My charities, they were called — they seemed to me the payment of rny debts to my fellow-creatures — were abundant. Lord...affirm that I did wrong ; that to please my husband and do honour to his rank, was my first duty. Yet, shall I confess it? even now, rendered miserable by... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...called my ideas sordid, and reproved me severely, when, instead of outshining all competitors at af^te, I appeared dowdily dressed, and declared warmly that...spend twenty guineas on a gown, while I could dress many sad faces in smiles, and bring much joy to many drooping hearts, by the same sum. Was I right... | |
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