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... paddock , I think I shall enjoy them all the more for a little absence . Don't you feel , Caroline , as if you would like to get away sometimes from everything and everybody that you always are with - in fact , that you FICKLE FLORA . 5.
... paddock , I think I shall enjoy them all the more for a little absence . Don't you feel , Caroline , as if you would like to get away sometimes from everything and everybody that you always are with - in fact , that you FICKLE FLORA . 5.
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... feeling very foolish , and saying nothing . Certainly , I expected to see quite a heap of weeds and untidiness , but , to my surprise , it was all quite as neat as on the day when it was given to me ! So mamma looked quite pleased and ...
... feeling very foolish , and saying nothing . Certainly , I expected to see quite a heap of weeds and untidiness , but , to my surprise , it was all quite as neat as on the day when it was given to me ! So mamma looked quite pleased and ...
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... feel quite grieved now to leave all these roses and buds , and my patches of seeds , which will come up when I am not here to watch them , and my creepers , which grow so fast , and want constantly training . ' ' Oh , you will soon ...
... feel quite grieved now to leave all these roses and buds , and my patches of seeds , which will come up when I am not here to watch them , and my creepers , which grow so fast , and want constantly training . ' ' Oh , you will soon ...
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... feel giddy . ' ' This deep valley , ' said Flora , ' looks almost as if it had been cut purposely ; is it not curious that there should be just this hollow and the cliff con- tinuing so high on both sides of it ? ' ' Do you not see ...
... feel giddy . ' ' This deep valley , ' said Flora , ' looks almost as if it had been cut purposely ; is it not curious that there should be just this hollow and the cliff con- tinuing so high on both sides of it ? ' ' Do you not see ...
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... feel tired of your own home , merely because you know every step in it . ' ' Oh , mamma , ' cried Caroline , does not that sound odd ? I like things better because they are old , and I have known them so long , and Flora dis- likes them ...
... feel tired of your own home , merely because you know every step in it . ' ' Oh , mamma , ' cried Caroline , does not that sound odd ? I like things better because they are old , and I have known them so long , and Flora dis- likes them ...
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