Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 39Chatto and Windus, 1879 |
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... soon sank , fell into the marsh of reality . She doesn't care for me ; not one straw , ' he told himself ; I know that well enough : why should she ? how could she ? I have never done anything such a woman could care about . Wilberforce ...
... soon sank , fell into the marsh of reality . She doesn't care for me ; not one straw , ' he told himself ; I know that well enough : why should she ? how could she ? I have never done anything such a woman could care about . Wilberforce ...
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... soon again . She could not even desire to see him as long as Paulina remained in the house . It was a great sacrifice , she thought , to have displeased him for the sake of Paulina . Yet she could not bring herself to believe that it ...
... soon again . She could not even desire to see him as long as Paulina remained in the house . It was a great sacrifice , she thought , to have displeased him for the sake of Paulina . Yet she could not bring herself to believe that it ...
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... soon get to know all about the whole affair . ' Sir Wilberforce was evidently about to enter on a formal examination of Paulina , after the regular fashion of a county justice of the peace interrogating some new tramp or alien beggar ...
... soon get to know all about the whole affair . ' Sir Wilberforce was evidently about to enter on a formal examination of Paulina , after the regular fashion of a county justice of the peace interrogating some new tramp or alien beggar ...
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... soon exploded . As she would probably have put it herself , the game was up ' in a moment . A very brief investiga- tion conducted by Major Leven , at the instigation and with the companionship of Sir Wilberforce , and with the help of ...
... soon exploded . As she would probably have put it herself , the game was up ' in a moment . A very brief investiga- tion conducted by Major Leven , at the instigation and with the companionship of Sir Wilberforce , and with the help of ...
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... soon , but reached them free of all the more extravagant additions . They learned at least that Gabrielle was alive and well , and that nobody had even offered to do her harm . But Robert turned pale , and could not hide , even from the ...
... soon , but reached them free of all the more extravagant additions . They learned at least that Gabrielle was alive and well , and that nobody had even offered to do her harm . But Robert turned pale , and could not hide , even from the ...
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