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... morning . Hastily dressing , I sought to examine the premises before my host should have risen . It was still early , but , as I soon found , I was the last , not the first , up . Crossing the paved courtyard , and passing under the ...
... morning . Hastily dressing , I sought to examine the premises before my host should have risen . It was still early , but , as I soon found , I was the last , not the first , up . Crossing the paved courtyard , and passing under the ...
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... morning from the Atlantic . " " Why , " said I , " they are alive when they are boiled in London ; horribly cruel it is , too . " 66 They're stale for all that ; but never mind , Charlie , wait till you've tasted ours ! " We walked ...
... morning from the Atlantic . " " Why , " said I , " they are alive when they are boiled in London ; horribly cruel it is , too . " 66 They're stale for all that ; but never mind , Charlie , wait till you've tasted ours ! " We walked ...
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... morning , and he said it would be murder to awaken ye ; faith , Charlie , you looked like a snoring cherub . " I blushed , and expressed my gratitude and acquiescence in any plan he was good enough to suggest . It had been arranged that ...
... morning , and he said it would be murder to awaken ye ; faith , Charlie , you looked like a snoring cherub . " I blushed , and expressed my gratitude and acquiescence in any plan he was good enough to suggest . It had been arranged that ...
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... morning news came that a coil of rope had been stolen from the boat - a very serious loss where you are forty miles from a shop - and Mr. Blake's ire was greatly roused . We proceeded at once to Mick the boatman's cabin , and found that ...
... morning news came that a coil of rope had been stolen from the boat - a very serious loss where you are forty miles from a shop - and Mr. Blake's ire was greatly roused . We proceeded at once to Mick the boatman's cabin , and found that ...
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... morning , shortly afterwards , being what a Scotchman calls " fou , " that is , very drunk indeed , misbehaved in chapel . Father Pat ordered him peremptorily to quit the sacred precincts , but the potent spirit had made him insensible ...
... morning , shortly afterwards , being what a Scotchman calls " fou , " that is , very drunk indeed , misbehaved in chapel . Father Pat ordered him peremptorily to quit the sacred precincts , but the potent spirit had made him insensible ...
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!