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  • To tell the truth, I was horribly jealous of Mawley.

    She and I, Volume 1

  • "I don't agree with you, Mawley," said the vicar, "the truth is not so brittle that we should be afraid of handling it; if religion were more openly discussed and brought into our daily life, I believe we should be all the better for it."

    She and I, Volume 1

  • Really, all things considered, I'm very much afraid that I had not that kind Christian feeling and charity in my heart towards Mawley that the vicar had enjoined in his Christmas sermon.

    She and I, Volume 1

  • "And you didn't care so much for Mawley after all?"

    She and I, Volume 1

  • "Come, Mawley," he added, "come and exert yourself; and help to pull these forms out of the way," setting to work vigorously at the same time, himself.

    She and I, Volume 1

  • In the first place, because Mawley was so antipathetical to me, that I dearly loved to combat his assertions; and, secondly, on account of his disparaging my beau ideal of all that is grand and good in a writer and in man.

    She and I, Volume 1

  • She sang every song that Mawley and Horner asked her for, playing the accompaniments for the latter when he favoured the company with his idea of ballad vocalisation.

    She and I, Volume 1

  • Miss de Mawley, representing in her own person the evergreens omitted in the garlands, received the happy couple on their return from the ceremony at the head of all the female domestics, from the housekeeper down to the kitchenmaid, and led the bride and bridegroom to the table in the great hall, where old Sir Hugh was sitting in great state.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

  • Mawley, as I hold my commission, is to preach Christ's gospel in all its truth and simplicity and love.

    She and I, Volume 1

  • I felt very angry with her for her attentions to Horner and Mawley, and, as I thought, neglect of me; so, I wished to let her know it.

    She and I, Volume 1

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