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... feeling , I have endeavoured to turn my attention from the matter - of - fact world , and look back upon the bright past with a reso- lution to extract some sweets from the flowers of memory , which will always bloom again , if breathed ...
... feeling , I have endeavoured to turn my attention from the matter - of - fact world , and look back upon the bright past with a reso- lution to extract some sweets from the flowers of memory , which will always bloom again , if breathed ...
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... feeling came over those children ; they welcomed the advent of another with a clapping of their tiny hands . The father gazed upon them with a look of paternal love , and ten little souls crowded round his knees . The princess gazed ...
... feeling came over those children ; they welcomed the advent of another with a clapping of their tiny hands . The father gazed upon them with a look of paternal love , and ten little souls crowded round his knees . The princess gazed ...
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... feelings , by thrusting forward his right . They were both kings , in fact , and equal , excepting only in the elder ... feeling grew and grew , day by day , until he could no longer restrain his desire to put them aside ; but how ? He ...
... feelings , by thrusting forward his right . They were both kings , in fact , and equal , excepting only in the elder ... feeling grew and grew , day by day , until he could no longer restrain his desire to put them aside ; but how ? He ...
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... to get away from the scene of so much startling horror . Ernest and Albert , who entertained nothing but feelings of love and kindness towards their uncle , received , with joy untinged with suspicion , his wonderful THE TWO ROSES . 19.
... to get away from the scene of so much startling horror . Ernest and Albert , who entertained nothing but feelings of love and kindness towards their uncle , received , with joy untinged with suspicion , his wonderful THE TWO ROSES . 19.
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... feels himself thrice armed in the affection of the princess , whose heart is irrevocably his . He has , therefore , crushed the fatal blossom beneath his heel , leaving himself in your power without fear , assured that the remembrance ...
... feels himself thrice armed in the affection of the princess , whose heart is irrevocably his . He has , therefore , crushed the fatal blossom beneath his heel , leaving himself in your power without fear , assured that the remembrance ...
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