The Truth about Tristrem Varick: A Novel |
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... question was the only child of a neighbour , Mr. Dirck Van Norden by name , and very pretty is she said to have been . Before the wedding Erastus Varick had his house , which was situated in Waverley Place , re- furnished from cellar to ...
... question was the only child of a neighbour , Mr. Dirck Van Norden by name , and very pretty is she said to have been . Before the wedding Erastus Varick had his house , which was situated in Waverley Place , re- furnished from cellar to ...
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... question . When he reached the altitudes which the Upper School offers , no other boy at St. Paul's was better liked than he . At that time the form of which he was a member - and in which , parenthetically , he ranked rather low - was ...
... question . When he reached the altitudes which the Upper School offers , no other boy at St. Paul's was better liked than he . At that time the form of which he was a member - and in which , parenthetically , he ranked rather low - was ...
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... questions and recondite pro- blems was not to his liking . He preferred modern tongues to dead languages , and intricate fugue was more to his taste than the simplest equation , and to his shame it must be noted that he read Petrarch at ...
... questions and recondite pro- blems was not to his liking . He preferred modern tongues to dead languages , and intricate fugue was more to his taste than the simplest equation , and to his shame it must be noted that he read Petrarch at ...
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... questions , nor did he manifest a desire for any larger sociological information than that which he already possessed . His grandfather was too irascible for anyone to venture with in safety through the shallows of European refinements ...
... questions , nor did he manifest a desire for any larger sociological information than that which he already possessed . His grandfather was too irascible for anyone to venture with in safety through the shallows of European refinements ...
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... question , and ending up with her irritating laugh . " " ' He does , " came a voice from the door , and Weldon entered . " He does , but he can resist the temptation . " Then there was more conversation of the before - dinner kind , and ...
... question , and ending up with her irritating laugh . " " ' He does , " came a voice from the door , and Weldon entered . " He does , but he can resist the temptation . " Then there was more conversation of the before - dinner kind , and ...
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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.