The Last Essays of EliaG. Routledge & sons, 1880 - 119 pages |
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... Morning Herald by far the most entertaining of them . It is an agreeable miscellany , rather than a newspaper . Coming into an inn at night having ordered your supper- what can be more delightful than to find lying in the window - seat ...
... Morning Herald by far the most entertaining of them . It is an agreeable miscellany , rather than a newspaper . Coming into an inn at night having ordered your supper- what can be more delightful than to find lying in the window - seat ...
Page 66
... morning than a Common Councilman . His ser- vices were shortly after dis- pensed with , on the plea that his paragraphs of late had been defi- cient in point . The one in ques- tion , it must be owned , had an air , in the opening ...
... morning than a Common Councilman . His ser- vices were shortly after dis- pensed with , on the plea that his paragraphs of late had been defi- cient in point . The one in ques- tion , it must be owned , had an air , in the opening ...
Page 78
... morning studies ) to betray the few grey stragglers of his own beneath them . He wore an aspect of thoughtful satisfac- tion . I trembled for the hour , which at length approached , when after a protracted breakfast of three hours — if ...
... morning studies ) to betray the few grey stragglers of his own beneath them . He wore an aspect of thoughtful satisfac- tion . I trembled for the hour , which at length approached , when after a protracted breakfast of three hours — if ...
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