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... dinner kind , and during its progress the door opened again , and a young girl crossed the room . She was dressed in a gown of canary , draped with madeira and fluttered with lace . Her arms and neck were bare , and unjewelled . Her ...
... dinner kind , and during its progress the door opened again , and a young girl crossed the room . She was dressed in a gown of canary , draped with madeira and fluttered with lace . Her arms and neck were bare , and unjewelled . Her ...
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... dinner . " << Talk metaphysics to a bull , and the first thing you know the first thing you know - I beg your pardon , Mrs. Weldon , I didn't mean to say that - I don't know how the or why I said it . " seemed to think . trifle tired ...
... dinner . " << Talk metaphysics to a bull , and the first thing you know the first thing you know - I beg your pardon , Mrs. Weldon , I didn't mean to say that - I don't know how the or why I said it . " seemed to think . trifle tired ...
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... dinner was again to the guest at her left . almost done . She asked a few more questions , and then presently , in a general lull , she gave a glance about her . At that signal the women- folk rose in a body , the men rising also , to ...
... dinner was again to the guest at her left . almost done . She asked a few more questions , and then presently , in a general lull , she gave a glance about her . At that signal the women- folk rose in a body , the men rising also , to ...
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... dinner in Gramercy Park , crystallization had done its work . He awoke with the surprise and wonder of an inexperienced sensation ; he awoke with the con- sciousness of being in love , wholly , turbulently , absurdly in love with a girl ...
... dinner in Gramercy Park , crystallization had done its work . He awoke with the surprise and wonder of an inexperienced sensation ; he awoke with the con- sciousness of being in love , wholly , turbulently , absurdly in love with a girl ...
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... dinner call , if not obligatory to him , was obligatory to her , and on that obligation he counted . To those who agree to be bound by what the Western press calls etiquette , there is nothing more inexorable 36 Tristrem Varick .
... dinner call , if not obligatory to him , was obligatory to her , and on that obligation he counted . To those who agree to be bound by what the Western press calls etiquette , there is nothing more inexorable 36 Tristrem Varick .
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Page 105 - No person having a husband, wife, child or parent, shall, by his or her last will and testament, devise or bequeath to any benevolent, charitable, literary, scientific, religious or missionary society, association or corporation, in trust or otherwise, more than one-half part of his or her estate, after the payment of his or her debts, and such devise or bequest shall be valid to the extent of one-half, and no more.
Page 106 - ... no such devise or bequest shall be valid in any will which shall not have been made and executed at least two months before the death of the testator.