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... Redmayne and his wife Hannah , are left in charge of the farm . And of ... Grace , an only child , a tall , slim , auburn - haired girl of nineteen ... Redmayne in particular , protested . She TO THE BITTER END . 3.
... Redmayne and his wife Hannah , are left in charge of the farm . And of ... Grace , an only child , a tall , slim , auburn - haired girl of nineteen ... Redmayne in particular , protested . She TO THE BITTER END . 3.
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... Grace Redmayne had been over - educated — so said Mrs. James , who would have liked to see her niece a proficient in the dairy , and great in the management of poultry . In sober truth , the girl's life was somewhat useless , and Mrs ...
... Grace Redmayne had been over - educated — so said Mrs. James , who would have liked to see her niece a proficient in the dairy , and great in the management of poultry . In sober truth , the girl's life was somewhat useless , and Mrs ...
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... Redmayne had two sons ; great hulking unkempt youths of nineteen and twenty , illiterate to a degree that inspired their cousin Grace with a profound contempt for them , but hard - work- ing lads , and excellent farmers . These young ...
... Redmayne had two sons ; great hulking unkempt youths of nineteen and twenty , illiterate to a degree that inspired their cousin Grace with a profound contempt for them , but hard - work- ing lads , and excellent farmers . These young ...
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... Grace's fancy to set her tea - table sometimes on balmy midsummer afternoons ... Grace , who treated him in a dangerously bewitching manner - half im- pertinent ... Redmayne , who would have liked the tea - table to look pretty , with ...
... Grace's fancy to set her tea - table sometimes on balmy midsummer afternoons ... Grace , who treated him in a dangerously bewitching manner - half im- pertinent ... Redmayne , who would have liked the tea - table to look pretty , with ...
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... Grace Redmayne had acquired her only notions of polite life . The girl had learned that knowledge of good and evil which is so freely communicated in such establishments , and thought it rather a hard thing to be a farmer's daughter ...
... Grace Redmayne had acquired her only notions of polite life . The girl had learned that knowledge of good and evil which is so freely communicated in such establishments , and thought it rather a hard thing to be a farmer's daughter ...
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Page 242 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 127 - Here, my dear friend," he suddenly exclaimed, as he pulled a couple of little parcels out of his pocket, "is a quarter of a pound of tea and half a pound of sugar, for, though it is not in my power at present to return you the two guineas, you nor any man else shall ever have it to say that I want gratitude.
Page 140 - As one dead in the bottom of a tomb : Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale. Rom. And trust me, love, in my eye so do you : Dry sorrow drinks our blood. — Adieu ! Juliet farewell !— My life !— Jul.