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... Things do not appear very cheerful - Theodora taken to the schoolroom - Summoned to the drawing - room - The head teacher , Miss Terry- Theodora's dulness - She has to run the gauntlet of the schoolroom - Isabel Howard , CHAPTER XII ...
... Things do not appear very cheerful - Theodora taken to the schoolroom - Summoned to the drawing - room - The head teacher , Miss Terry- Theodora's dulness - She has to run the gauntlet of the schoolroom - Isabel Howard , CHAPTER XII ...
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... things - Letters from home - Miss Terry misrepresents Theodora - Dull school routine- Theodora makes a friend - Vision of her father's grave- stone , 84 CHAPTER XIV . The birthday celebration - Unkind treatment of Theodora- Miss Terry ...
... things - Letters from home - Miss Terry misrepresents Theodora - Dull school routine- Theodora makes a friend - Vision of her father's grave- stone , 84 CHAPTER XIV . The birthday celebration - Unkind treatment of Theodora- Miss Terry ...
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... things than most girls of her age , from having been so used to talking with her father . All she knew she had learnt from him and from books ; and , perhaps , other knowledge she was as well without . One misfortune in the life of ...
... things than most girls of her age , from having been so used to talking with her father . All she knew she had learnt from him and from books ; and , perhaps , other knowledge she was as well without . One misfortune in the life of ...
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... Things cannot go on in this way , my dear ; the house must be cleared of some of the children . I will take the two elder boys home with me ; think of some one to relieve you of the little ones . ' ' Farmer Hailes ' wife would take them ...
... Things cannot go on in this way , my dear ; the house must be cleared of some of the children . I will take the two elder boys home with me ; think of some one to relieve you of the little ones . ' ' Farmer Hailes ' wife would take them ...
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... things of you . And now I will go and look up Alfred and Bob , and take them home with me . ' Mr. Morgan left the room without any further words , leaving Theodora standing in the same position she had been in throughout their interview ...
... things of you . And now I will go and look up Alfred and Bob , and take them home with me . ' Mr. Morgan left the room without any further words , leaving Theodora standing in the same position she had been in throughout their interview ...
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