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... returned to the nursery , and found myself left alone with my younger sister Ernestine . She had suffered from some childish ill- ness , and was slowly recovering from it . She was always a delicate child , and was often , for weeks to ...
... returned to the nursery , and found myself left alone with my younger sister Ernestine . She had suffered from some childish ill- ness , and was slowly recovering from it . She was always a delicate child , and was often , for weeks to ...
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... returned home from Oxford , for the long vacation , with his tutor , Mr. Scott . Neither could we enter into the feelings which gave our mother's voice a tone of triumph when she ended her stories always in the same words : " However ...
... returned home from Oxford , for the long vacation , with his tutor , Mr. Scott . Neither could we enter into the feelings which gave our mother's voice a tone of triumph when she ended her stories always in the same words : " However ...
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... returned . I had been longing for a sight of him . It seemed to me an immense time since he went , and his adventure , by dint of being much dwelt upon , had altered my thought of him . It was Hilary , our own Hilary , and yet it was a ...
... returned . I had been longing for a sight of him . It seemed to me an immense time since he went , and his adventure , by dint of being much dwelt upon , had altered my thought of him . It was Hilary , our own Hilary , and yet it was a ...
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... returned , what my father would say , and what my mother would say . Perhaps the " rescued stranger " would accompany Hilary . Would he fall on his knees before my mother to thank her for having such a son ? No , I could not quite fancy ...
... returned , what my father would say , and what my mother would say . Perhaps the " rescued stranger " would accompany Hilary . Would he fall on his knees before my mother to thank her for having such a son ? No , I could not quite fancy ...
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... returned . My father was standing with his back to the dining- room fire , talking to his late pupil , George Arm- strong . He broke off in his discourse as I entered to say , " Armstrong , this is my eldest daughter , Janet , who I ...
... returned . My father was standing with his back to the dining- room fire , talking to his late pupil , George Arm- strong . He broke off in his discourse as I entered to say , " Armstrong , this is my eldest daughter , Janet , who I ...
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