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Annie Keary. Ernestine is ! how lovely she promises to be ! —and Charlie , I do think , is the handsomest boy I ever saw in my life . " " Charlie is very well , and Ernestine will , I suppose , be pretty ; that makes me the more sorry ...
Annie Keary. Ernestine is ! how lovely she promises to be ! —and Charlie , I do think , is the handsomest boy I ever saw in my life . " " Charlie is very well , and Ernestine will , I suppose , be pretty ; that makes me the more sorry ...
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... Charlie continued to keep Hilary and me by his manoeuvres . It was the delight of his life to torment us by the daring things he did , so cleverly , as just to escape attracting my father's attention , by what appeared the merest good ...
... Charlie continued to keep Hilary and me by his manoeuvres . It was the delight of his life to torment us by the daring things he did , so cleverly , as just to escape attracting my father's attention , by what appeared the merest good ...
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... Charlie's beautiful face could be puckered into an imitation of our plain ones . Besides , it was dangerous to tempt Charlie to begin mimicking ; there was no saying where he would end , or how long our gravity would hold out against ...
... Charlie's beautiful face could be puckered into an imitation of our plain ones . Besides , it was dangerous to tempt Charlie to begin mimicking ; there was no saying where he would end , or how long our gravity would hold out against ...
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... Charlie , impelled by a similar impulse , would fall to buzzing over their lessons with a great show of attention . The mention of my father , and grandmamma Scott , and the house in West Street , brought us all back to our present ...
... Charlie , impelled by a similar impulse , would fall to buzzing over their lessons with a great show of attention . The mention of my father , and grandmamma Scott , and the house in West Street , brought us all back to our present ...
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... Charlie with a look of relief . When this occurred , Nesta and I sometimes trembled in fear of a catastrophe , which , however , never came . Up to the moment of my father's calling upon him , Charlie would probably have been happily ...
... Charlie with a look of relief . When this occurred , Nesta and I sometimes trembled in fear of a catastrophe , which , however , never came . Up to the moment of my father's calling upon him , Charlie would probably have been happily ...
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