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... excellent Gover- ness to offer you this little Work , I present it with the good wishes of a heart alive to the best interests and most endearing claims of your age and your sex : entreating each individual to consider my simple story ...
... excellent Gover- ness to offer you this little Work , I present it with the good wishes of a heart alive to the best interests and most endearing claims of your age and your sex : entreating each individual to consider my simple story ...
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... excellent father , this was not likely to occur ; for he lived in a re- tired manner , and regularly laid by a con- sid r ble portion of his income for their fu- ture fortunes . Mrs. Henville , though still a young and elegant woman ...
... excellent father , this was not likely to occur ; for he lived in a re- tired manner , and regularly laid by a con- sid r ble portion of his income for their fu- ture fortunes . Mrs. Henville , though still a young and elegant woman ...
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... excellent materials in a ruinous state . " Agreeable to this resolution she proceeded , and by indefatigable exertion , and with a skill that astonished professional . architects , finished it under her own inspec- tion in the most ...
... excellent materials in a ruinous state . " Agreeable to this resolution she proceeded , and by indefatigable exertion , and with a skill that astonished professional . architects , finished it under her own inspec- tion in the most ...
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... occasional lessons of a teacher , learn quicker than those at home , to whom the constant attention of very excellent teachers are devoted . parlour numerous books which she earnestly desired to read , 58 THE DAUGHTER OF A GENIUS ;
... occasional lessons of a teacher , learn quicker than those at home , to whom the constant attention of very excellent teachers are devoted . parlour numerous books which she earnestly desired to read , 58 THE DAUGHTER OF A GENIUS ;
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... excellent education for that end . Mrs. Margaret , fixing a scrutinizing ey on the mother , observed , " I doubt not , niece Albany , you speak French as a mother tongue ? ” " I do , ma'am , precisely , and have often passed for a ...
... excellent education for that end . Mrs. Margaret , fixing a scrutinizing ey on the mother , observed , " I doubt not , niece Albany , you speak French as a mother tongue ? ” " I do , ma'am , precisely , and have often passed for a ...
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