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... , Polly , you could not find her a better mamma . ' Still it was a great struggle to me to part with my first baby , and I put off thinking of it from day to day . But when I came home from school on the afternoon when EARLY TIMES . 21.
... , Polly , you could not find her a better mamma . ' Still it was a great struggle to me to part with my first baby , and I put off thinking of it from day to day . But when I came home from school on the afternoon when EARLY TIMES . 21.
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... mamma . The house , she said , was four miles farther away from Laneton than ours , along the same high road ; and there were a good many servants in it , and an old nurse , who I should have to help in the care of three little children ...
... mamma . The house , she said , was four miles farther away from Laneton than ours , along the same high road ; and there were a good many servants in it , and an old nurse , who I should have to help in the care of three little children ...
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... mamma ; but I went on with my work , hoping nurse would see that , if I had been stupid in the morning in not finding out what the different brushes were meant for , I was making up for it now . The two young ladies opened the door ...
... mamma ; but I went on with my work , hoping nurse would see that , if I had been stupid in the morning in not finding out what the different brushes were meant for , I was making up for it now . The two young ladies opened the door ...
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... mamma's sitting - room ajar , pushed it open and ran in ; and a minute after she called out , ' Mary , mamma wants to speak to you directly . ' So I went down again and knocked at the door . ' I have been ' Come in , Mary , ' said my ...
... mamma's sitting - room ajar , pushed it open and ran in ; and a minute after she called out , ' Mary , mamma wants to speak to you directly . ' So I went down again and knocked at the door . ' I have been ' Come in , Mary , ' said my ...
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... mamma , to have a nest full of such little darlings ? ' and I did admire them very much . And directly I saw them , it came into my mind that Miss Mabel would like one for a pet . So mother promised to choose out the prettiest , and ...
... mamma , to have a nest full of such little darlings ? ' and I did admire them very much . And directly I saw them , it came into my mind that Miss Mabel would like one for a pet . So mother promised to choose out the prettiest , and ...
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