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... never comes to see us ; do you know Aunt Jane , Miss Horton ? " " Yes , my dear , she was my best friend , and I do not know anybody that is fonder of children , or does more to please them , and I have no doubt you will be very happy ...
... never comes to see us ; do you know Aunt Jane , Miss Horton ? " " Yes , my dear , she was my best friend , and I do not know anybody that is fonder of children , or does more to please them , and I have no doubt you will be very happy ...
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... never been since she could remember , and do what she had never done before , gather the " real primroses . " Miss Horton had been brought up in the country , and during the six years of her confinement in the narrow , dark street , had ...
... never been since she could remember , and do what she had never done before , gather the " real primroses . " Miss Horton had been brought up in the country , and during the six years of her confinement in the narrow , dark street , had ...
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... never been in a railway carriage before , and she sat very quietly with her hand in Miss Horton's , too much occupied with the novelty ( and , perhaps , feeling a little afraid ) to talk as much as usual . When they left the train ...
... never been in a railway carriage before , and she sat very quietly with her hand in Miss Horton's , too much occupied with the novelty ( and , perhaps , feeling a little afraid ) to talk as much as usual . When they left the train ...
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Catharine M. A. Couper. she ran on , never waiting for an answer , till they drove into a narrower lane , which Mr ... never be allowed to laugh and play , but I soon found myself very merry and happy . " As she said this the carriage ...
Catharine M. A. Couper. she ran on , never waiting for an answer , till they drove into a narrower lane , which Mr ... never be allowed to laugh and play , but I soon found myself very merry and happy . " As she said this the carriage ...
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... her head in her aunt's lap . Her papa car- ried her up to bed , and she was sleeping so soundly that she never wakened till six o'clock the next morning , when she was very much puzzled at finding herself in a strange bed . SPRING . 9.
... her head in her aunt's lap . Her papa car- ried her up to bed , and she was sleeping so soundly that she never wakened till six o'clock the next morning , when she was very much puzzled at finding herself in a strange bed . SPRING . 9.
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