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Page 6
... 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 grace . Ralph Granby followed her ...
... 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 grace . Ralph Granby followed her ...
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... spoke not . " I was told of this scandal last night at chapel , and wouldn't believe it , " continued the matron , " but now I have the evidence of my own eyes . " " May not your eyes have deceived you Letty now said , with a slight ...
... spoke not . " I was told of this scandal last night at chapel , and wouldn't believe it , " continued the matron , " but now I have the evidence of my own eyes . " " May not your eyes have deceived you Letty now said , with a slight ...
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... spoke , Mr. Rivers scanned him over . He was a handsome young fellow , but with an impress of sadness on his bright complexion , and , withal , looking fagged . Something fantastic in the cut of his billycock hat and tourist's dress com ...
... spoke , Mr. Rivers scanned him over . He was a handsome young fellow , but with an impress of sadness on his bright complexion , and , withal , looking fagged . Something fantastic in the cut of his billycock hat and tourist's dress com ...
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... spoke . ' Very well done ! " exclaimed the farmer , surveying the picture : " our little Socrates in his wisest look . But we will now get out in the air , for you have all been too long indoors . " " And I want to have a peep at the ...
... spoke . ' Very well done ! " exclaimed the farmer , surveying the picture : " our little Socrates in his wisest look . But we will now get out in the air , for you have all been too long indoors . " " And I want to have a peep at the ...
Page 52
... spoke in a tone that made his words . sound like a challenge to Ralph Granby ; but the young Squire not only forbore to reply , but showed no sign of having heard the speech , or , indeed , of remembering Harry's presence . The slight ...
... spoke in a tone that made his words . sound like a challenge to Ralph Granby ; but the young Squire not only forbore to reply , but showed no sign of having heard the speech , or , indeed , of remembering Harry's presence . The slight ...
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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.