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... Letty ? " " I have told you I object to your calling me Letty . " And Letty frowned . " I hope you will relent , and be more- shall I say considerate , or gracious ? Re- member how I have been suing to you for a whole month , meeting ...
... Letty ? " " I have told you I object to your calling me Letty . " And Letty frowned . " I hope you will relent , and be more- shall I say considerate , or gracious ? Re- member how I have been suing to you for a whole month , meeting ...
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... Letty's in- tention ; for , as he spoke , she gathered up her dress , and began to run . The pace is not generally becoming to the softer sex , but with her well - poised head , fragile form , and lithe step , she made it a mirror of ...
... Letty's in- tention ; for , as he spoke , she gathered up her dress , and began to run . The pace is not generally becoming to the softer sex , but with her well - poised head , fragile form , and lithe step , she made it a mirror of ...
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... Letty's running , and she fell into a walk , while her stepmother stood still , and waited for her to come up . Mrs ... Letty . They had never , indeed , come to a downright quarrel , for of the five years of the stepmother's reign ...
... Letty's running , and she fell into a walk , while her stepmother stood still , and waited for her to come up . Mrs ... Letty . They had never , indeed , come to a downright quarrel , for of the five years of the stepmother's reign ...
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... Letty vowed a vow of submission on the first day of the stepmotherate , and had ever since put a constraint upon ... Letty's stepbrother , born to Mrs. Rivers by her first marriage , and now seven years old . 1 Between Letty and little ...
... Letty vowed a vow of submission on the first day of the stepmotherate , and had ever since put a constraint upon ... Letty's stepbrother , born to Mrs. Rivers by her first marriage , and now seven years old . 1 Between Letty and little ...
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... Letty's mo- ther had belonged to the Church , and brought her up in the same communion , though Mr. Rivers himself was an Inde- pendent . As Letty venerated her father , she was naturally attached to his creed , when at sixteen she came ...
... Letty's mo- ther had belonged to the Church , and brought her up in the same communion , though Mr. Rivers himself was an Inde- pendent . As Letty venerated her father , she was naturally attached to his creed , when at sixteen she came ...
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Page 22 - O gentlemen, the time of life is short ! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Page 8 - And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: 30.