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... Miss Clarkes - Miss Carry's hat - Mr . Morgan argues with Gertrude , but without effect , . CHAPTER XXIII . Mrs. Staples visits Prospect House - Isabel's plot is being carried out - The old woman enters into the scheme- Isabel's ready ...
... Miss Clarkes - Miss Carry's hat - Mr . Morgan argues with Gertrude , but without effect , . CHAPTER XXIII . Mrs. Staples visits Prospect House - Isabel's plot is being carried out - The old woman enters into the scheme- Isabel's ready ...
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... Mrs. Astley's sitting - room - Ger- trude's system of bribing Georgey - The annual fair - Miss Clarke's first - rate scheme - Gertrude's indifference to her mother's comfort , CHAPTER XXXV . Gertrude offers to put Georgey to bed - She ...
... Mrs. Astley's sitting - room - Ger- trude's system of bribing Georgey - The annual fair - Miss Clarke's first - rate scheme - Gertrude's indifference to her mother's comfort , CHAPTER XXXV . Gertrude offers to put Georgey to bed - She ...
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... Miss Clarke's threat - What it was that made Gertrude rush home so wildly to her mother - Mrs. Astley's tenderness to her - The Miss Clarkes ' dismissal -Gertrude again gives way to the impulse of the moment -The thunderstorm , CHAPTER ...
... Miss Clarke's threat - What it was that made Gertrude rush home so wildly to her mother - Mrs. Astley's tenderness to her - The Miss Clarkes ' dismissal -Gertrude again gives way to the impulse of the moment -The thunderstorm , CHAPTER ...
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... Miss Propriety . I called old Mother Vincent a beast , and several other little words ; and I threw Johnson's ... Clarkes ! Don't tell mamma I am gone with them . ' And , seizing her hat , she clapped it on her head , and ran after the ...
... Miss Propriety . I called old Mother Vincent a beast , and several other little words ; and I threw Johnson's ... Clarkes ! Don't tell mamma I am gone with them . ' And , seizing her hat , she clapped it on her head , and ran after the ...
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Emilia Marryat Norris. ' Oh ! how funny ! ' exclaimed one of the Miss Clarkes . The next minute they both flounced into the room , and , going straight up to Mrs. Astley , who had risen and bowed rather stiffly to them , they held out ...
Emilia Marryat Norris. ' Oh ! how funny ! ' exclaimed one of the Miss Clarkes . The next minute they both flounced into the room , and , going straight up to Mrs. Astley , who had risen and bowed rather stiffly to them , they held out ...
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