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... repeated aloud until it became sonorous as were it set in titles . But pre- sently some defect presented itself , it sounded less apt , more suited to a blue - eyed daughter of a viking than to one so brune as she . Decidedly , Tristrem ...
... repeated aloud until it became sonorous as were it set in titles . But pre- sently some defect presented itself , it sounded less apt , more suited to a blue - eyed daughter of a viking than to one so brune as she . Decidedly , Tristrem ...
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... repeated again and again , Mrs. Weldon , with a commingling of complacency and alarm , told herself that , in her quality of married woman , such persis- tence should be discouraged . But the opportunity for such discouragement did not ...
... repeated again and again , Mrs. Weldon , with a commingling of complacency and alarm , told herself that , in her quality of married woman , such persis- tence should be discouraged . But the opportunity for such discouragement did not ...
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... repeated to himself , gravely and decorously , and with the earnestness and sincerity of the untried , the grave covenants of the marriage pact . On descending at the station he remembered , for the first time , that he had omitted to ...
... repeated to himself , gravely and decorously , and with the earnestness and sincerity of the untried , the grave covenants of the marriage pact . On descending at the station he remembered , for the first time , that he had omitted to ...
Page 92
... repeated . " H'm . Robert Harris . I never knew before what the butler's first name was . But what has that to do with it ? There are times when I am utterly imbecile . Your father is dying . Yes , of course , I must go at He bit his ...
... repeated . " H'm . Robert Harris . I never knew before what the butler's first name was . But what has that to do with it ? There are times when I am utterly imbecile . Your father is dying . Yes , of course , I must go at He bit his ...
Page 98
... " We'll get there , " the negro repeated from time to time , and to encourage his fare he lashed the horses to their utmost speed . Peacedale was in the A minute or two more , and the check tained 98 Tristrem Varick .
... " We'll get there , " the negro repeated from time to time , and to encourage his fare he lashed the horses to their utmost speed . Peacedale was in the A minute or two more , and the check tained 98 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.