Our white Violet, by Kay Spen, Volume 263 |
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... if she could do anything . They bathed Edmund's cuts and bruises , and helped him indoors to lie on his bed , for he had injured his arm in trying to save Violet as she fell , and it gave him great pain 4 Our White Violet .
... if she could do anything . They bathed Edmund's cuts and bruises , and helped him indoors to lie on his bed , for he had injured his arm in trying to save Violet as she fell , and it gave him great pain 4 Our White Violet .
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... trying in her dear little way to pet and comfort him , until , wearied out with crying , he fell into a sound sleep , from which he was only awakened by the doctor , who stood over him with a troubled face . Alice was still keeping ...
... trying in her dear little way to pet and comfort him , until , wearied out with crying , he fell into a sound sleep , from which he was only awakened by the doctor , who stood over him with a troubled face . Alice was still keeping ...
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... tried to catch them , but they would not let him touch them , and when he tried to , they bounced up into his face , and hit him so hard that he fled away terrified out of the castle , and never came near it again . And when the day ...
... tried to catch them , but they would not let him touch them , and when he tried to , they bounced up into his face , and hit him so hard that he fled away terrified out of the castle , and never came near it again . And when the day ...
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... trying to hide him- self from them , and all night long they were peeping at him . If he put his head under the coverlet , the big walnuts were there ; if he put his head outside the coverlet , the big walnuts were there . When he shut ...
... trying to hide him- self from them , and all night long they were peeping at him . If he put his head under the coverlet , the big walnuts were there ; if he put his head outside the coverlet , the big walnuts were there . When he shut ...
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... tried to catch them , but they would not let him touch them , and when he tried to , they bounced up into his face , and hit him so hard that he fled away terrified out of the castle , and never came near it again . And when the day ...
... tried to catch them , but they would not let him touch them , and when he tried to , they bounced up into his face , and hit him so hard that he fled away terrified out of the castle , and never came near it again . And when the day ...
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