The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1900 - 254 pages |
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Page 74
... mean was a retired half - pay officer , with a wife and two grown - up daughters , whom he maintained with the port ... means to bounties . You saw with your bodily eyes , indeed , what 74 Captain Jackson.
... mean was a retired half - pay officer , with a wife and two grown - up daughters , whom he maintained with the port ... means to bounties . You saw with your bodily eyes , indeed , what 74 Captain Jackson.
Page 159
... mean a power , in my emergency , of thinking and giving vent to all manner of strange nonsense . In this awkward ... means I was fortunate in keeping together the better part of the company to a late hour ; and a rubber of whist ( the ...
... mean a power , in my emergency , of thinking and giving vent to all manner of strange nonsense . In this awkward ... means I was fortunate in keeping together the better part of the company to a late hour ; and a rubber of whist ( the ...
Page 174
... means , it would be selfish and wicked . It is the very little more than we allow ourselves beyond what the actual ... mean the veriest poor of all , but persons as we were , just above poverty . " I know what you are going to say that ...
... means , it would be selfish and wicked . It is the very little more than we allow ourselves beyond what the actual ... mean the veriest poor of all , but persons as we were , just above poverty . " I know what you are going to say that ...
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