The Recollections of Geoffry HamlynMacmillan and Company, 1860 - 433 pages |
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... beautiful flower - garden which lay before us , sloping towards the river , looked rather brown and sere , after the hot winds , although the orange - trees were still green enough , and vast clusters of purple grapes were ripening ...
... beautiful flower - garden which lay before us , sloping towards the river , looked rather brown and sere , after the hot winds , although the orange - trees were still green enough , and vast clusters of purple grapes were ripening ...
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... beautiful old woman . Dressed I said in grey , with a white handkerchief pinned over her grey hair , and a light Indian shawl hanging from her shoulders . As upright as a dart , she came towards us through the burning heat , as calmly ...
... beautiful old woman . Dressed I said in grey , with a white handkerchief pinned over her grey hair , and a light Indian shawl hanging from her shoulders . As upright as a dart , she came towards us through the burning heat , as calmly ...
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... beautiful girl , merry , impetuous , and thoughtless , with black waving hair and dark blue eyes , and all the village loved her and took pride in her . For they said- " She is the handsomest and the best in the parish . " CHAPTER III ...
... beautiful girl , merry , impetuous , and thoughtless , with black waving hair and dark blue eyes , and all the village loved her and took pride in her . For they said- " She is the handsomest and the best in the parish . " CHAPTER III ...
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... beautiful girl entering silently at the lower door came gliding up the darkening vista , past the light of the windows and the shadow of the piers , to where the old man sat under the high north window , and knelt at his feet , weeping ...
... beautiful girl entering silently at the lower door came gliding up the darkening vista , past the light of the windows and the shadow of the piers , to where the old man sat under the high north window , and knelt at his feet , weeping ...
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... beautiful girls , would come to see him ; but they , indeed , were rather intruders , kind and good as they were . And sometimes old Talbot looked round to see his old friend , and talked of bygone fishing and hunting , which roused the ...
... beautiful girls , would come to see him ; but they , indeed , were rather intruders , kind and good as they were . And sometimes old Talbot looked round to see his old friend , and talked of bygone fishing and hunting , which roused the ...
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