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... piano - yet on the morning upon which my tale begins the occupant of this pleasant little apartment sat idly gazing out of the window , apparently engaged in counting the rain drops which were beginning to MY SISTER'S KEEPER .
... piano - yet on the morning upon which my tale begins the occupant of this pleasant little apartment sat idly gazing out of the window , apparently engaged in counting the rain drops which were beginning to MY SISTER'S KEEPER .
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... morning 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 ...
... morning 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 ...
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... . She would have liked nothing better than to have learned at her feet . May awoke on the following morning with the agreeable consciousness that " something nice " was going to happen . Is there anything A SENSE OF WANT . 15.
... . She would have liked nothing better than to have learned at her feet . May awoke on the following morning with the agreeable consciousness that " something nice " was going to happen . Is there anything A SENSE OF WANT . 15.
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... , help and usefulness must follow . Are there no girls of your own age , working as dressmakers , or in shops , from morning to night , whose lives you might not do something to cheer and brighten ? AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION . 29.
... , help and usefulness must follow . Are there no girls of your own age , working as dressmakers , or in shops , from morning to night , whose lives you might not do something to cheer and brighten ? AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION . 29.
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... morning the sun was streaming brightly into her room , and the honeysuckle , stirred by the fresh morning air , was giving gentle little taps at her window . As she dressed she could see Miss Harcourt , arrayed in gardening apron and ...
... morning the sun was streaming brightly into her room , and the honeysuckle , stirred by the fresh morning air , was giving gentle little taps at her window . As she dressed she could see Miss Harcourt , arrayed in gardening apron and ...
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