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... morning . The silence and constraint of these evenings made us , perhaps , enjoy all the more the liberty which my mother accorded to us when my father was away at the lecture , and we children were left to her guidance . A great deal ...
... morning . The silence and constraint of these evenings made us , perhaps , enjoy all the more the liberty which my mother accorded to us when my father was away at the lecture , and we children were left to her guidance . A great deal ...
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... mornings and evenings succeed each other for many years , that , in looking back upon them , it is difficult to believe that each one changed us as it passed ; that we grew from childhood to youth in that noiseless way . For myself , my ...
... mornings and evenings succeed each other for many years , that , in looking back upon them , it is difficult to believe that each one changed us as it passed ; that we grew from childhood to youth in that noiseless way . For myself , my ...
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... morning was not only the first day of the examination , but Hilary's eighteenth birthday . We all stood at the window - Nesta , my mother , and I— to watch my father and the boys as they left the house . Hilary was well - grown for his ...
... morning was not only the first day of the examination , but Hilary's eighteenth birthday . We all stood at the window - Nesta , my mother , and I— to watch my father and the boys as they left the house . Hilary was well - grown for his ...
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... pill to swallow . My mother talked about the boys all day . She took me upstairs with her , to help to sort the linen ( it was Monday morning ) ; and while I stood by her side before the sacred linen closet , instead of JANET'S HOME . 41.
... pill to swallow . My mother talked about the boys all day . She took me upstairs with her , to help to sort the linen ( it was Monday morning ) ; and while I stood by her side before the sacred linen closet , instead of JANET'S HOME . 41.
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... morning that it was quite his duty to let them know . Surely they would never think of preventing his having a scholarship , which is only worth fifty pounds a year , if they knew that he ought , by rights , to have all those thousands ...
... morning that it was quite his duty to let them know . Surely they would never think of preventing his having a scholarship , which is only worth fifty pounds a year , if they knew that he ought , by rights , to have all those thousands ...
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