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共 30 题- BY JAMES GRANT
- AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF WAR."
- THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE.
- Sir Nigel clapped his hands in applause, and said to the M.P.--
- I shook my head. On which he resumed--
- Hard strove father and mother with Annora; but--
- She felt like Juliet in the feud between the families--
- I knew that the crisis had come; but how was I to approach it?
- She smiled sadly, even bitterly, and rose, saying--
- Not a word about Louisa! I read on with growing impatience:--
- I bowed; but of course remained silent.
- I felt that I became nearly as pale as herself, while replying--
- The sweet verse of honest Goldsmith occurred to me--
- She gazed at me earnestly and wistfully, and said--
- It had been hurriedly pencilled by Frank Jocelyn, and ran thus:--
- I alone was silent and sad.
- The aide burst into a hearty fit of laughter, and then replied--
- I began to smile.
- Of that prayer I can only remember a single sentence--
- Suddenly I called out--
- After using my own telescope, I exclaimed--
- I talked to myself wrathfully and incoherently.
- I was the only prisoner of war in the fortress of Kourouk.
- Before proceeding to the General's I ask
- "Like the muff, or rather the knave he i
- But it is too bad to tease you, Newton dear!"
- So much for "Time, the avenger!"
- With the poet, I may exclaim--
- THE END.
- BILLING AND SONS, PRINTERS, GUILDFORD, SURREY.