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Page 13
... hour of tea and visiting . The simultaneous sound of his well - known rap at the door with the stroke of the clock announcing six , was a topic of never - failing mirth in the families which this dear old bachelor gladdened with his ...
... hour of tea and visiting . The simultaneous sound of his well - known rap at the door with the stroke of the clock announcing six , was a topic of never - failing mirth in the families which this dear old bachelor gladdened with his ...
Page 15
... hours . He sang , certainly , with other notes than to the Orphean lyre . He did , in- deed , scream and scrape most abominably . His fine suite of official rooms in Threadneedle - street , which , without anything very substantial ...
... hours . He sang , certainly , with other notes than to the Orphean lyre . He did , in- deed , scream and scrape most abominably . His fine suite of official rooms in Threadneedle - street , which , without anything very substantial ...
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... hours of my time in the contemplation of indigos , cottons , raw silks , piece - goods , flowered or otherwise . In the first place ― your • and then it sends you home with such increased appe- tite to your books not to say , that ...
... hours of my time in the contemplation of indigos , cottons , raw silks , piece - goods , flowered or otherwise . In the first place ― your • and then it sends you home with such increased appe- tite to your books not to say , that ...
Page 26
... hours after , his walking destinies returned him into the same neighborhood again , and again the quiet image of the fireside circle at M.'s- Mrs. M. presiding at it like a Queen Lar , with pretty A. S. at her side - striking ...
... hours after , his walking destinies returned him into the same neighborhood again , and again the quiet image of the fireside circle at M.'s- Mrs. M. presiding at it like a Queen Lar , with pretty A. S. at her side - striking ...
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... hour of my life , I trace impressions left by the recollection of those friendless holidays . The long warm days of summer never return but they bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of those whole - day leaves , when by some ...
... hour of my life , I trace impressions left by the recollection of those friendless holidays . The long warm days of summer never return but they bring with them a gloom from the haunting memory of those whole - day leaves , when by some ...
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