Mrs. Juliet, Volume 1Chatto & Windus, 1892 |
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... perhaps done well to undertake it . Mr. Freeman , who was about to be his host , was an M.P. , a merchant , and a millionaire ; Mrs. Freeman a pretty , witty , and genuinely kind woman , who liked to see her house filled . People of ...
... perhaps done well to undertake it . Mr. Freeman , who was about to be his host , was an M.P. , a merchant , and a millionaire ; Mrs. Freeman a pretty , witty , and genuinely kind woman , who liked to see her house filled . People of ...
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... perhaps it is as well , ' said Mrs. Cradock ; I dare say it is . My dear Cradock but the London was very generous to me , clergy would make a poor woman of me in a week if they had their way . I mean those I don't know , ' she added ...
... perhaps it is as well , ' said Mrs. Cradock ; I dare say it is . My dear Cradock but the London was very generous to me , clergy would make a poor woman of me in a week if they had their way . I mean those I don't know , ' she added ...
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... something between bitterness and despair in his voice . ' This is my last night for a long time - perhaps for ever . I am to leave this house soon after six o'clock to - morrow morning for Portsmouth . We sail THE DIVINE PARTHENESSA 23.
... something between bitterness and despair in his voice . ' This is my last night for a long time - perhaps for ever . I am to leave this house soon after six o'clock to - morrow morning for Portsmouth . We sail THE DIVINE PARTHENESSA 23.
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... perhaps you will get someone to believe it in time ; but you must be a fool to try to make me do so , for if I did I should just turn you out of my house at once , as a stupid creature not fit to enjoy its advantages . However , you ...
... perhaps you will get someone to believe it in time ; but you must be a fool to try to make me do so , for if I did I should just turn you out of my house at once , as a stupid creature not fit to enjoy its advantages . However , you ...
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... perhaps some of the servants were still up and about . He took a candle , and , letter in hand , went noiselessly downstairs . The rooms were all empty - no servant was to be seen . At last , rather than go back to his room with his ...
... perhaps some of the servants were still up and about . He took a candle , and , letter in hand , went noiselessly downstairs . The rooms were all empty - no servant was to be seen . At last , rather than go back to his room with his ...
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Page 1 - Latimer must have walked erect; and in which Hooker, in his young days, possibly flaunted in a vein of no discommendable vanity. In the depth of college shades, or in his lonely chamber, the poor student shrunk from observation. He found shelter among books, which insult not ; and studies, that ask no questions of a youth's finances.
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Page 183 - Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, Or, what is worse, be left by it ? Why dost thou load thyself, when thou'rt to fly, Oh man, ordain'd to die ? Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, Thou who art under ground to lie ? Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see, For death, alas ! is sowing thee.
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