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... taken at random from my father's library , which I read greedily , with or without un- derstanding , as the case might be . Hilary had pur- suits of his own quite as absorbing . The favourite one was tending a colony of sticklebacks and ...
... taken at random from my father's library , which I read greedily , with or without un- derstanding , as the case might be . Hilary had pur- suits of his own quite as absorbing . The favourite one was tending a colony of sticklebacks and ...
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... taken off her beauty like a garment , and clothed me with it if she could . If we could have had that , as we had every other possession , " between us , " she would have valued it ; without that possibility , it was a burden to her ...
... taken off her beauty like a garment , and clothed me with it if she could . If we could have had that , as we had every other possession , " between us , " she would have valued it ; without that possibility , it was a burden to her ...
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... taken into consideration ; so many household deficiencies had to be first supplied ; but if my father or Hilary had chanced to express a wish which money could gratify , my mother was sure to remember it on those days . How radiant she ...
... taken into consideration ; so many household deficiencies had to be first supplied ; but if my father or Hilary had chanced to express a wish which money could gratify , my mother was sure to remember it on those days . How radiant she ...
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... taken a step forward in life that day . As I sat at the window , straining my eyes , weak - sighted like my father's , with most elaborately careful darning , I built a castle in the air , in which I saw myself the central figure of the ...
... taken a step forward in life that day . As I sat at the window , straining my eyes , weak - sighted like my father's , with most elaborately careful darning , I built a castle in the air , in which I saw myself the central figure of the ...
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... taken extreme pains with the darning , and done it , as Nesta affectionately pointed out , beautifully , but it had not occurred to me that it signified on which side of the cloth I put my work . It had , of course , all to come out ...
... taken extreme pains with the darning , and done it , as Nesta affectionately pointed out , beautifully , but it had not occurred to me that it signified on which side of the cloth I put my work . It had , of course , all to come out ...
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