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... remember once going there for a day or two when mamma was ill there , and it was dull ; there was nothing to do but to walk in the garden or the fields all day long , and Aunt Jane is always very stupid , 2 COUNTRY PLEASURES .
... remember once going there for a day or two when mamma was ill there , and it was dull ; there was nothing to do but to walk in the garden or the fields all day long , and Aunt Jane is always very stupid , 2 COUNTRY PLEASURES .
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... 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 found great pleasure in ...
... 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 found great pleasure in ...
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... remember going to bed ? " You went to sleep down stairs , dear , and papa carried you up to bed . " " Oh dear me ! but wasn't it very rude , and wasn't grandmamma very angry ? " " Not at all ; you were very tired with your journey , and ...
... remember going to bed ? " You went to sleep down stairs , dear , and papa carried you up to bed . " " Oh dear me ! but wasn't it very rude , and wasn't grandmamma very angry ? " " Not at all ; you were very tired with your journey , and ...
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... remember when she was herself a child , and therefore fully entered into all the feelings of Agnes , who , finding her sympathy and kindness so delightful in con- trast with the selfishness of Caroline , made her much more of a ...
... remember when she was herself a child , and therefore fully entered into all the feelings of Agnes , who , finding her sympathy and kindness so delightful in con- trast with the selfishness of Caroline , made her much more of a ...
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... remember , Agnes dear , that winter will come ; we shall not always have the roses in flower here , or like to walk out of this door on the grass plot ; the trees will be bare , and the snow will be on the ground . " 66 Well , then ...
... remember , Agnes dear , that winter will come ; we shall not always have the roses in flower here , or like to walk out of this door on the grass plot ; the trees will be bare , and the snow will be on the ground . " 66 Well , then ...
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