Joseph's coat, Volume 2Chatto & Windus, 1881 |
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... Daniel held his head low for very shame , but on the aged a blow of this kind sometimes falls with com- parative lightness . It is not experience alone which enables age to bear its troubles easily . The old beat has gone out of the ...
... Daniel held his head low for very shame , but on the aged a blow of this kind sometimes falls with com- parative lightness . It is not experience alone which enables age to bear its troubles easily . The old beat has gone out of the ...
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... Daniel was driven away also ; and four people , who had seemed rooted to the soil they were born on , went away together and took one and the same goal . Trouble had brought Dinah and Ethel close together , and had made them fast ...
... Daniel was driven away also ; and four people , who had seemed rooted to the soil they were born on , went away together and took one and the same goal . Trouble had brought Dinah and Ethel close together , and had made them fast ...
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... Daniel was willing to go anywhere , so long as he was but led out of the sight of eyes in whose gaze he had been familiar . 6 ' I've never been a don at travellin ' , ' said Daniel , an ' I'm a bit mythered - like ; ' he meant ...
... Daniel was willing to go anywhere , so long as he was but led out of the sight of eyes in whose gaze he had been familiar . 6 ' I've never been a don at travellin ' , ' said Daniel , an ' I'm a bit mythered - like ; ' he meant ...
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... Daniel , and now we'm a - gettin ' among the coal again . ' But before he was settled in his new home he had to spend a day or two at the local hotel , a little countryfied house with a bowling - green behind it . He sat there in the ...
... Daniel , and now we'm a - gettin ' among the coal again . ' But before he was settled in his new home he had to spend a day or two at the local hotel , a little countryfied house with a bowling - green behind it . He sat there in the ...
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... Daniel , an ' you'll be all right . Eh ? ' Oh , yes , ' said Dinah soothingly , thinking that the old man wandered . But he had some- thing on his mind , though it was perhaps the last thing in the world that Dinah was likely to think ...
... Daniel , an ' you'll be all right . Eh ? ' Oh , yes , ' said Dinah soothingly , thinking that the old man wandered . But he had some- thing on his mind , though it was perhaps the last thing in the world that Dinah was likely to think ...
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Academy Notes amazement answered asked baronet began BESANT and JAMES brother certificate Chaplain CHARLES GIBBON Cheston cloth extra cloth limp cried criminal Crown 8vo Daniel dear Demy 8vo Dinah door Edited Ethel eyes face Facsimile fancy feel fellow felt gaol George Banks George Bushell gilt gone Governor grey hands heart hope JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE Joe Bushell Joe's John Keen JULIAN HAWTHORNE JUSTIN MCCARTHY knew lady look MACQUOID MARK TWAIN marriage married mind Miss Banks Miss Donne never numerous Illustrations old George old George's OUIDA PICCADILLY NOVELS Portrait Post 8vo prisoner Saracen scoundrel sexton Sir Jonas Sir Sydney Cheston Somerset House Square 8vo story tell Theer's thing thought told took town trouble Uncle George voice W. H. MALLOCK WALTER BESANT warder Waston Church whilst wicked WILKIE COLLINS woman wonder Wrethedale young George
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