American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 43Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1854 - American periodicals |
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... ladies , and it is on their account that I bring these flowers very handsome ones . ' " That they are ; they must have cost fifteen sous , at least . ' ' In the month of December ! If you said fifteen francs , you would have come nearer ...
... ladies , and it is on their account that I bring these flowers very handsome ones . ' " That they are ; they must have cost fifteen sous , at least . ' ' In the month of December ! If you said fifteen francs , you would have come nearer ...
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... ladies had recovered sufficient composure to enable them to converse freely , they overwhelmed me with thanks for my ... lady , and to - morrow will be heartily ashamed of what he has done ; but never more , ' she added , indignantly ...
... ladies had recovered sufficient composure to enable them to converse freely , they overwhelmed me with thanks for my ... lady , and to - morrow will be heartily ashamed of what he has done ; but never more , ' she added , indignantly ...
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... lady , and received her sanction to our engagement , my happi- ness was complete . It was settled that , as soon as I arrived home , I should procure a leave of absence and proceed to Seville direct , where mother and daughter were to ...
... lady , and received her sanction to our engagement , my happi- ness was complete . It was settled that , as soon as I arrived home , I should procure a leave of absence and proceed to Seville direct , where mother and daughter were to ...
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... lady of about forty ; some called her an old maid , but that warn't so , not by several years ; her teeth were as sound as a nut , and her hair as black as a crow . She was a nurse , and had probably given more lobelia , pennyroyal ...
... lady of about forty ; some called her an old maid , but that warn't so , not by several years ; her teeth were as sound as a nut , and her hair as black as a crow . She was a nurse , and had probably given more lobelia , pennyroyal ...
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... lady , with a pinched - up black bonnet , a very wide ruffle to her cap , through which the gray hairs strayed . She sighed frequently and hea- vily . She said she did n't know as she knew any thing worth telling She did n't know any ...
... lady , with a pinched - up black bonnet , a very wide ruffle to her cap , through which the gray hairs strayed . She sighed frequently and hea- vily . She said she did n't know as she knew any thing worth telling She did n't know any ...
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