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... seemed to look to his daughter to help him out with purposes and recollections ; while towards Alda there was an almost imploring tenderness , as if she had carried away with her a good deal of the enjoyment of his life , which he hoped ...
... seemed to look to his daughter to help him out with purposes and recollections ; while towards Alda there was an almost imploring tenderness , as if she had carried away with her a good deal of the enjoyment of his life , which he hoped ...
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... seemed to do her , even by outrageous irreverence when the spirit of mischief was roused . Teachers detested her , but she was the idol of half the school . All unclaimed misdeeds were laid to her share ; and in recklessness or ...
... seemed to do her , even by outrageous irreverence when the spirit of mischief was roused . Teachers detested her , but she was the idol of half the school . All unclaimed misdeeds were laid to her share ; and in recklessness or ...
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... seemed no special necessity for a consultation , which in fact proved to be a rehearsal of the morrow's lesson , with various instructions to Felix himself , on what Clement called ' Church Teaching , ' in oblivion that the simple ...
... seemed no special necessity for a consultation , which in fact proved to be a rehearsal of the morrow's lesson , with various instructions to Felix himself , on what Clement called ' Church Teaching , ' in oblivion that the simple ...
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... seemed to bring the sense of grinding to her mind — and this particular dress seemed to carry in every fold the remembrance of some jar between the wearer and herself ; nor was she exhilarated by the accompaniment , for Robina was ...
... seemed to bring the sense of grinding to her mind — and this particular dress seemed to carry in every fold the remembrance of some jar between the wearer and herself ; nor was she exhilarated by the accompaniment , for Robina was ...
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... seemed to have lost all interest in his studies at the Academy , was getting into a set that had degenerated from permissible eccentricity into something very like lawlessness , and even while an undesirable inmate , had vexed his kind ...
... seemed to have lost all interest in his studies at the Academy , was getting into a set that had degenerated from permissible eccentricity into something very like lawlessness , and even while an undesirable inmate , had vexed his kind ...
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