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... seemed to know , Then Mrs. Lisle asked Walter , ' Where is Geoffry ? ' Geoffry was always the first person thought of when any mischief was discovered . ' He is gone out with papa , ' said Walter . Cook looked quickly at Anne , and then ...
... seemed to know , Then Mrs. Lisle asked Walter , ' Where is Geoffry ? ' Geoffry was always the first person thought of when any mischief was discovered . ' He is gone out with papa , ' said Walter . Cook looked quickly at Anne , and then ...
Page 28
... seemed to have an objection to coming on , and kept Geoffry Lisle so long waiting in his shirt - sleeves before he could make up his mind to part with his own jacket , that Geoffry said at length , ' Well , I shall catch cold if I wait ...
... seemed to have an objection to coming on , and kept Geoffry Lisle so long waiting in his shirt - sleeves before he could make up his mind to part with his own jacket , that Geoffry said at length , ' Well , I shall catch cold if I wait ...
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... started up upon being called to help the boys in their arrangements . You never saw such a mixture of things as those boys brought out . Mr. Calton seemed to have made up his mind that they should do just as 40 GEOFFRY'S GREAT FAULT .
... started up upon being called to help the boys in their arrangements . You never saw such a mixture of things as those boys brought out . Mr. Calton seemed to have made up his mind that they should do just as 40 GEOFFRY'S GREAT FAULT .
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... seemed as if the say- ings of the servants struck him on the head like blows . He turned , and throwing up his arms in despair , with a short cry , he ran from the kitchen and the house , -he knew not and he cared not where . Then the ...
... seemed as if the say- ings of the servants struck him on the head like blows . He turned , and throwing up his arms in despair , with a short cry , he ran from the kitchen and the house , -he knew not and he cared not where . Then the ...
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... seemed whirling through his head , as it does in a dream ; but every now and then his father's face , as it looked when he was raised from the kitchen floor , came back to Geoffry's memory , and he would have got up and begun to run ...
... seemed whirling through his head , as it does in a dream ; but every now and then his father's face , as it looked when he was raised from the kitchen floor , came back to Geoffry's memory , and he would have got up and begun to run ...
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Adventures asked Geoffry Author BARBARA HUTTON Bella Bertrand Du Guesclin C. H. BENNETT Calton circus company Clarke cloth elegant Collins coloured cook David Collins dear disobeyed doctor door EMILIA MARRYAT NORRIS face father Fcap fire forget Fourth Edition G. A. HENTY garden Geoffry felt Geoffry Lisle Geoffry looked Geoffry's George gilt edges Girls HARRISON WEIR head heard Henry Watson History Illus Illustrations Imperial 16mo Infant Jack Jack Allen JULES VERNE kitchen knew little Archie little Bell mamma Master Geoff Master Geoffry mind mother Murray never Numbers nurse once papa pigs police poor Post 8vo Price 6d Scowling Boy Second Edition Shillings and Sixpence sleep Small 4to stood Stories Super Royal 16mo sure talking tell things Third Edition THOMAS HOOD thought Three Shillings told voice W. H. G. KINGSTON walked WALTER CRANE words wrong young
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