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... felt hungry enough , but he was a strong lad , and could stand a fast better than most children of his age . He had had a happy afternoon , in spite of circumstances , and he lay down on the floor to sleep , and no doubt dreamed of ...
... felt hungry enough , but he was a strong lad , and could stand a fast better than most children of his age . He had had a happy afternoon , in spite of circumstances , and he lay down on the floor to sleep , and no doubt dreamed of ...
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... felt like a criminal about to be confined within the walls of a prison for years ; yet he knew he must submit to his fate . In those days ( the incidents of which we are speaking took place in the early part of the seventeenth century ) ...
... felt like a criminal about to be confined within the walls of a prison for years ; yet he knew he must submit to his fate . In those days ( the incidents of which we are speaking took place in the early part of the seventeenth century ) ...
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... felt his heart yearn- ing after those whom it might be long ere he saw again . He quickened his footsteps as daylight began to dawn , and , long before the hour when his disappearance would be discovered , found himself at some distance ...
... felt his heart yearn- ing after those whom it might be long ere he saw again . He quickened his footsteps as daylight began to dawn , and , long before the hour when his disappearance would be discovered , found himself at some distance ...
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... felt deep pity for the lad , and sympathized with his dread of being forced into a learned profession , so wholly foreign to his nature . Yet he could not deny that his father was right in calling an artist's profession a starving one ...
... felt deep pity for the lad , and sympathized with his dread of being forced into a learned profession , so wholly foreign to his nature . Yet he could not deny that his father was right in calling an artist's profession a starving one ...
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... felt his own generous nature stirred with a desire to help him on . Yet how to do so was not an easy matter , for he could not afford to keep and teach him him- self as he would like to have done , nor was he altogether satisfied that ...
... felt his own generous nature stirred with a desire to help him on . Yet how to do so was not an easy matter , for he could not afford to keep and teach him him- self as he would like to have done , nor was he altogether satisfied that ...
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