There is not such a man as the doctor appears in this world more than once in a hundred years.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Mots clés doctor

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Freedom and peace is even sweeter than wealth and honors.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

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Now, the soul of Capitola naturally abhorred sentiment. If ever she gave way to serious emotion, she was sure to avenge herself by being more capricious than before.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

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You are like the angel in Cole's picture of life! You point the youth to the far-up temple of fame-"

"And leave him to get there as he can? Not at all, madam!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

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But, my dear, if you should be caught out in the storm!"

"Why, I don't know but I should like it! What harm could it do? I'm not soluble in water - rain won't melt me away! I think upon the whole I rather prefer being caught in the storm," said Cap, perversely.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Mots clés storm

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Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Mots clés honor fair-play jewel

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The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she had just rode out in quest of adventures.

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Mots clés boredom adventures

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Be silent!" shrieked the beldame.

"I won't!" said Cap. "Because you see, if we are in for the horrible, I can beat you hollow at that!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Mots clés feisty-heroine spunk

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This is a jolly imprudent adventure!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Mots clés adventure

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It means, your worships' excellencies, that - you - can't come to it! This chicken won't fight. It means that the fat's in the fire, and the cat's out of the bag! It means confusion! Distraction! Perdition! And a tearing off of our wigs! It means the game's up, the play's over, villainy is about to be hanged and virtue about to be married, and the curtain is going to drop and the principal performer - that's I - is going to be called out amid the applause of the audience!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

Mots clés humor mocking capitola

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