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" ... one. And only think, dear John, that we can never marry, as there is no priest to join us. Do, then, plan some way for us to leave this place ; for I cannot tell you how I long to get once more to my father, and among right Christians. "
The Fairy Mythology - Page 294
by Thomas Keightley - 1828
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Legends and traditionary stories

Legends - 1843 - 300 pages
...throwing her arms about John's neck, she bathed his cheeks with her tears. At length she spoke — " Dearest John," said she, " every thing down here is...how I long to get once more to my father, and among right Christians." John too had not been unaffected by the crowing of the cocks, and he felt what he...
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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, Volume 1

Sabine Baring-Gould - 1867 - 374 pages
...mother, and of our churchyard ; and I cannot go to the House of God, and worship Him as a Christian should ; for this is no Christian life we lead down here, but a delusive, half-heathen one.'1 John, however, could not release Elizabeth from the power of the underground folk...
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The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1870 - 416 pages
...human beings. Every night I dream of my dear father and mother, and of our church-yard, where the {) the church with them, and worship God as a human being...a delusive half heathen one. And only think, dear Joha, that we can never marry, as there is no priest to join us. Do, then, plan some way for us to...
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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages: By S. Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould - 1873 - 688 pages
...mother, and of our churchyard; and I cannot go to the House of God, and worship Him as a Christian should ; for this is no Christian life we lead down here, but a delusive, half-heathen one." John, however, could not release Elizabeth from the power of the underground folk...
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Folk-lore and Legends: Scandinavian

1891 - 208 pages
...dream of my father and mother, and of our churchyard where the people stand so pious at the church door waiting for my father, and I could weep tears of blood...no Christian life we lead down here, but a delusive half-heathen one. And only think, dear John, that we can never marry, as there is no priest to join...
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Fourth Reader

Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - 1911 - 358 pages
...dear father and mother, and of our churchyard, where the people stand so piously at the church door waiting for my father, and I could weep tears of blood...worship God as a human being should; for this is no true life we lead down here, but a delusive, 0 half heathen 0 one. " And only think, dear John, that...
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