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... on the road towards matrimony . Betty Jarvis who loved Lady Rivers and her cherub Edgar , next to Mr Yorick , better than any thing else on earth , was not willing to leave them and her country . She THE FORTUNE TELLER . 27.
... on the road towards matrimony . Betty Jarvis who loved Lady Rivers and her cherub Edgar , next to Mr Yorick , better than any thing else on earth , was not willing to leave them and her country . She THE FORTUNE TELLER . 27.
Page 32
... Edgar , playing with some flowers which his mother had gathered for his amusement . Montgomery thought he had never seen Lady Rivers look half so lovely . He gazed in silent rapture . Finding he was unobserved , he ventured nearer , and ...
... Edgar , playing with some flowers which his mother had gathered for his amusement . Montgomery thought he had never seen Lady Rivers look half so lovely . He gazed in silent rapture . Finding he was unobserved , he ventured nearer , and ...
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... Edgar climbed his favorite's knee , and , as if he gave them his intuitive approbation , twined a little arm about the neck of each , alternately kissing them , thus forming link of affection between them . a rosy No time was lost ...
... Edgar climbed his favorite's knee , and , as if he gave them his intuitive approbation , twined a little arm about the neck of each , alternately kissing them , thus forming link of affection between them . a rosy No time was lost ...
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... Edgar , and embark with him for his native coun- try ; for she loved her husband so dearly , that she had already lost many of her prejudices against the Americans , and believed as firmly as he did , that they were cruelly aggrieved ...
... Edgar , and embark with him for his native coun- try ; for she loved her husband so dearly , that she had already lost many of her prejudices against the Americans , and believed as firmly as he did , that they were cruelly aggrieved ...
Page 36
... Edgar Rivers returned to England , and inherited the estate and title of his father . Colonel Montgome- ry and his lady lived to an age that but few individu- als ever reach , and died within a month of each other , at Norfolk ...
... Edgar Rivers returned to England , and inherited the estate and title of his father . Colonel Montgome- ry and his lady lived to an age that but few individu- als ever reach , and died within a month of each other , at Norfolk ...
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