The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1900 - 254 pages |
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Page 156
... young lady who , it will be seen , is about to ven- ture upon a change in her condition , at a mature and competent age , and not without the fullest approbation of all parties . I only deprecate very hasty marriages . It had been fixed ...
... young lady who , it will be seen , is about to ven- ture upon a change in her condition , at a mature and competent age , and not without the fullest approbation of all parties . I only deprecate very hasty marriages . It had been fixed ...
Page 157
... young lady's father , whose gout unhappily confined him at home , to act as parent on this occasion , and give away the bride . Something ludicrous occurred to me at this most serious of all moments , -a sense of my unfitness to have ...
... young lady's father , whose gout unhappily confined him at home , to act as parent on this occasion , and give away the bride . Something ludicrous occurred to me at this most serious of all moments , -a sense of my unfitness to have ...
Page 214
... young again , with recalling his young times . The children of the very poor have no young times . It makes the very heart to bleed to overhear the casual street - talk between a poor woman and her little girl , a woman of the better ...
... young again , with recalling his young times . The children of the very poor have no young times . It makes the very heart to bleed to overhear the casual street - talk between a poor woman and her little girl , a woman of the better ...
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