Sir Walter Scott: the Story of His LifeDuring his reunion with Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver tells of his quest to recover the remaining treasure from Treasure Island. |
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... hand had to provide . When worldly trouble smote him severely in his closing years ( and he bore it manfully ) , the lord of Abbotsford had to learn , like others , that to win for- tune is one thing , to retain it is another . He had ...
... hand had to provide . When worldly trouble smote him severely in his closing years ( and he bore it manfully ) , the lord of Abbotsford had to learn , like others , that to win for- tune is one thing , to retain it is another . He had ...
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... hands at the lightning , and crying out , " Bonny , bonny ! " at every flash . For some time , the boy could only crawl about the house , the farm - yard , and the green valley . But it was at Sandy - Knowe , amid the eternal beauty of ...
... hands at the lightning , and crying out , " Bonny , bonny ! " at every flash . For some time , the boy could only crawl about the house , the farm - yard , and the green valley . But it was at Sandy - Knowe , amid the eternal beauty of ...
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... hand , read his compositions as if his desire was to make the listener believe that they were ordinary prose . Moore , whose musical utterance of his own lyrics subdued his listeners into silence and tears , would read them in a see ...
... hand , read his compositions as if his desire was to make the listener believe that they were ordinary prose . Moore , whose musical utterance of his own lyrics subdued his listeners into silence and tears , would read them in a see ...
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... hands . There's the mast gone ! ' says he : crash it goes ! They will all perish ! ' After his agitation , he turns to me . ' That is too melancholy , ' says he : I had better read you some- thing more amusing . ' I preferred a little ...
... hands . There's the mast gone ! ' says he : crash it goes ! They will all perish ! ' After his agitation , he turns to me . ' That is too melancholy , ' says he : I had better read you some- thing more amusing . ' I preferred a little ...
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... hand , it was thought that he now was capable of taking the sec- ond step in life , that of going to school . Accord- ingly , ere he was seven years old , he was once more among his brothers , under the paternal roof in Edinburgh ...
... hand , it was thought that he now was capable of taking the sec- ond step in life , that of going to school . Accord- ingly , ere he was seven years old , he was once more among his brothers , under the paternal roof in Edinburgh ...
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