The Last Essays of EliaF.M. Lupton Publishing Company, 1899 - 238 pages |
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Page 141
... Morning Post newspaper stood then just where it does now , we are carrying you back , Reader , some thirty years or more , - with its gilt - globe - topt front facing that emporium of our artists ' grand Annual Exposure . We sometimes ...
... Morning Post newspaper stood then just where it does now , we are carrying you back , Reader , some thirty years or more , - with its gilt - globe - topt front facing that emporium of our artists ' grand Annual Exposure . We sometimes ...
Page 178
... morning studies ) to betray the few gray stragglers of his own beneath them . He wore an aspect of thought- ful satisfaction . I trembled for the hour , which at length approached , when after a protracted breakfast of three hours - if ...
... morning studies ) to betray the few gray stragglers of his own beneath them . He wore an aspect of thought- ful satisfaction . I trembled for the hour , which at length approached , when after a protracted breakfast of three hours - if ...
Page 179
... morning bustle . By this means I was fortunate in keeping to- gether the better part of the company to a late hour ; and a rubber of whist ( the Ad- miral's favorite game ) , with some rare strokes of chance as well as skill , which ...
... morning bustle . By this means I was fortunate in keeping to- gether the better part of the company to a late hour ; and a rubber of whist ( the Ad- miral's favorite game ) , with some rare strokes of chance as well as skill , which ...
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Blakesmoor in Hshire | 5 |
Poor Relations | 14 |
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading | 25 |
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