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... child I did , but I have found out in life , that it does very often prove true . And if you like , I will tell you one instance in which this was the case . In the course of one of my rambles in Spain it happened one day that I was ...
... child I did , but I have found out in life , that it does very often prove true . And if you like , I will tell you one instance in which this was the case . In the course of one of my rambles in Spain it happened one day that I was ...
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... child , as he had seen that she wanted to be better acquainted with him ; but he could hold no intimacy with the unbeliever . The giant , meantime , had gone on boring away ; 15 and , though he had now got quite under 14 Carlo Magno and ...
... child , as he had seen that she wanted to be better acquainted with him ; but he could hold no intimacy with the unbeliever . The giant , meantime , had gone on boring away ; 15 and , though he had now got quite under 14 Carlo Magno and ...
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... child of his parents , King Canamor and his consort Leonela : they were thus tempted to indulge him very much , and , as we should say , to spoil him ; in fact , he was allowed to have every thing he asked for , and when any present or ...
... child of his parents , King Canamor and his consort Leonela : they were thus tempted to indulge him very much , and , as we should say , to spoil him ; in fact , he was allowed to have every thing he asked for , and when any present or ...
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... child of noble parents of Valencia . She grew up in every virtue , and joined the wisdom of a Minerva to the beauty of a Venus . She was hardly eighteen before various noble youths were contending for her good graces ; but of them all ...
... child of noble parents of Valencia . She grew up in every virtue , and joined the wisdom of a Minerva to the beauty of a Venus . She was hardly eighteen before various noble youths were contending for her good graces ; but of them all ...
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... child . " I have come to tell you , " she broke in , " that your child is now in this very city ; three years and a half she has been a captive slave in Tunis Doña Josefa Ramirez y Marmolejo . 87.
... child . " I have come to tell you , " she broke in , " that your child is now in this very city ; three years and a half she has been a captive slave in Tunis Doña Josefa Ramirez y Marmolejo . 87.
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