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Witch Winnie's Mystery: Or the Old Oak Cabinet; The Story of a King's ... Elizabeth W. Champney No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 333 - 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.
Page 318 - read : Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. But they that wait upon the Lord
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