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Page 113
... thousand ignoble details . In the other you have the Ideal shorn of everything that is vulgar and distressing . It is a comfort to know that Hector , after playing with his child , won't mop his forehead with a red pocket ...
... thousand ignoble details . In the other you have the Ideal shorn of everything that is vulgar and distressing . It is a comfort to know that Hector , after playing with his child , won't mop his forehead with a red pocket ...
Page 115
... thousand years or so , and look at us through a telescope , and then be told we were not real , he would like it better , " May said , " 6 laughing . Anything is preferable to the present , according to him . ” " How will he manage when ...
... thousand years or so , and look at us through a telescope , and then be told we were not real , he would like it better , " May said , " 6 laughing . Anything is preferable to the present , according to him . ” " How will he manage when ...
Page 133
... thousand other common details . I destroyed an illusion ? " Have " I think you have , aunt , " May said , blushing slightly ; " but I am not sure that I regret it . I begin to feel my scheme more practical , though less poetical ...
... thousand other common details . I destroyed an illusion ? " Have " I think you have , aunt , " May said , blushing slightly ; " but I am not sure that I regret it . I begin to feel my scheme more practical , though less poetical ...
Page 260
... thousand turns of life we never thought on , and then , " but Will paused . He would not darken his dear young lady's happiness by a hint of death . The cobbler , making his appearance , a few moments afterwards , in the doorway , was ...
... thousand turns of life we never thought on , and then , " but Will paused . He would not darken his dear young lady's happiness by a hint of death . The cobbler , making his appearance , a few moments afterwards , in the doorway , was ...
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... her eyes , that the girls could hardly take their own from her face . They longed to ask a thousand questions , and Mary would have given worlds to have been able to present her somewhat sheepish suitor to her dear MARRIAGE BELLS . 309.
... her eyes , that the girls could hardly take their own from her face . They longed to ask a thousand questions , and Mary would have given worlds to have been able to present her somewhat sheepish suitor to her dear MARRIAGE BELLS . 309.
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