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... reached the spring , there were plenty of laughing , jumping , chattering children to meet her and to welcome her . The spring was only a great gap , hollowed in the bank , round which the lovely blue forget - me- nots grew , and in ...
... reached the spring , there were plenty of laughing , jumping , chattering children to meet her and to welcome her . The spring was only a great gap , hollowed in the bank , round which the lovely blue forget - me- nots grew , and in ...
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... reached home by moonlight - some hours afterwards only . And this is why . A mile or so from the village , she had met the good wife , who was mistress of a farm some little way back off the high road , and who had bidden her come back ...
... reached home by moonlight - some hours afterwards only . And this is why . A mile or so from the village , she had met the good wife , who was mistress of a farm some little way back off the high road , and who had bidden her come back ...
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... reached her arm downwards , but the clammy sides of the pit , and all she could see with the utmost straining of her eyes was a struggling something vainly beating against the sides . What was to be done ? A plank of wood would be of ...
... reached her arm downwards , but the clammy sides of the pit , and all she could see with the utmost straining of her eyes was a struggling something vainly beating against the sides . What was to be done ? A plank of wood would be of ...
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... reached home herself , but what mischief he might have been about on the way was , indeed , more than she could tell or cared to think about ! It was , indeed , vexatious , to say little , that this dog should possess so infinite a ...
... reached home herself , but what mischief he might have been about on the way was , indeed , more than she could tell or cared to think about ! It was , indeed , vexatious , to say little , that this dog should possess so infinite a ...
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... reached that part of the wall where she saw her brother ( the wall slanted north - eastwards ) she was quite hidden from passers - by in the road , and could wait safely until the prisoners came into the court - yard . ― In order to do ...
... reached that part of the wall where she saw her brother ( the wall slanted north - eastwards ) she was quite hidden from passers - by in the road , and could wait safely until the prisoners came into the court - yard . ― In order to do ...
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