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... hours to study . It is your plain duty to cultivate your own garden before you begin to root up the weeds behind your neighbour's fence . The influence of a cultivated woman- a woman with a well - nourished brain as well as a kind heart ...
... hours to study . It is your plain duty to cultivate your own garden before you begin to root up the weeds behind your neighbour's fence . The influence of a cultivated woman- a woman with a well - nourished brain as well as a kind heart ...
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... hour spent in the Great Western express brought May to Arlingford Junction , and thence the journey to Fern Hollow was made in the lumbering old fly which the station - master provided for her . As the heavy vehicle jogs along , we must ...
... hour spent in the Great Western express brought May to Arlingford Junction , and thence the journey to Fern Hollow was made in the lumbering old fly which the station - master provided for her . As the heavy vehicle jogs along , we must ...
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... hour after prayers had always been May's favourite portion of the day at Fern Hollow . " Now I've really got you to myself , Aunt Gracie , " she once said . " No old women will come to worry you for cough - mixture . No children with ...
... hour after prayers had always been May's favourite portion of the day at Fern Hollow . " Now I've really got you to myself , Aunt Gracie , " she once said . " No old women will come to worry you for cough - mixture . No children with ...
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... hours yet . There are May we sit in your room , and then we can talk to you ? " So May and her maid established themselves in a corner of Mrs. Pemberton's dressing - room ; and , whilst May plied her scissors busily , her tongue flew ...
... hours yet . There are May we sit in your room , and then we can talk to you ? " So May and her maid established themselves in a corner of Mrs. Pemberton's dressing - room ; and , whilst May plied her scissors busily , her tongue flew ...
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... hours . We get an hour for Those are our dinner in the middle of the day , and half an hour for our tea . " How tired you must get of it all , " May said , compassionately . How strange this reve- lation seemed to the tenderly nurtured ...
... hours . We get an hour for Those are our dinner in the middle of the day , and half an hour for our tea . " How tired you must get of it all , " May said , compassionately . How strange this reve- lation seemed to the tenderly nurtured ...
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