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... seemed to be a desire to know which way we were bound , whether north or south ; to which I pointed to the south . This gave him much satis- faction , and thereupon steps in the little grotman before described , who by the motion of his ...
... seemed to be a desire to know which way we were bound , whether north or south ; to which I pointed to the south . This gave him much satis- faction , and thereupon steps in the little grotman before described , who by the motion of his ...
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... seemed overjoyed at his being returned safe and sound from the perils of the woods , though his satisfaction had some check from the change his pretty wife had suffered in her complexion . The vermillion of her cheeks had given place a ...
... seemed overjoyed at his being returned safe and sound from the perils of the woods , though his satisfaction had some check from the change his pretty wife had suffered in her complexion . The vermillion of her cheeks had given place a ...
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... seemed good to me . To do that had been , no doubt , my play and my diversion , in the corridors where men must find diversion , whether in trifling with bank notes or women , whether in clutching at straws or prayer - books , or else ...
... seemed good to me . To do that had been , no doubt , my play and my diversion , in the corridors where men must find diversion , whether in trifling with bank notes or women , whether in clutching at straws or prayer - books , or else ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
GEORGE MASON 17251792 | 17 |
JOHN RANDOLPH 17731833 | 19 |
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