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... told me you had some cot- tage lectures , or other week - day services . " " So we have , except in harvest time , and then we are obliged to suspend them for want of atten- dants . Harvest is a busy period in a small place like this ...
... told me you had some cot- tage lectures , or other week - day services . " " So we have , except in harvest time , and then we are obliged to suspend them for want of atten- dants . Harvest is a busy period in a small place like this ...
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... told him I was sure he couldn't , and now , you see , my words have come true . He has broken his leg ; and instead of a man like Mr. Blandy , he has been obliged to engage a young in experienced gentleman like yourself . Not that I ...
... told him I was sure he couldn't , and now , you see , my words have come true . He has broken his leg ; and instead of a man like Mr. Blandy , he has been obliged to engage a young in experienced gentleman like yourself . Not that I ...
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... told me then , and believed to her dying day that it was all my fancy ; only the clock striking twelve . But I knew better ; for above all that clatter , I heard the old man's voice shouting out to me that I was his slave henceforth ...
... told me then , and believed to her dying day that it was all my fancy ; only the clock striking twelve . But I knew better ; for above all that clatter , I heard the old man's voice shouting out to me that I was his slave henceforth ...
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... told me that he had been invited to join a Society to enable Clergymen to provide Curates for nothing . A useful institu- tion , " observed Mrs. Podlington , with a sharp little giggle , " and pretty specimens , I should think , it will ...
... told me that he had been invited to join a Society to enable Clergymen to provide Curates for nothing . A useful institu- tion , " observed Mrs. Podlington , with a sharp little giggle , " and pretty specimens , I should think , it will ...
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... told Stephens to replace some that were rotten . He ought not to have taken down the old ones without immediately substituting new ones , for some of the cows , especially that black and white one , are rather wild ; but you had no ...
... told Stephens to replace some that were rotten . He ought not to have taken down the old ones without immediately substituting new ones , for some of the cows , especially that black and white one , are rather wild ; but you had no ...
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