Grey Towers; Or, Aunty Hetty's WillGriffith and Farran, 1877 - 284 pages |
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... bright and pleasant as ever . Mrs. Thwaites is a busy , active little woman , with a genial face and trim figure , a well - shaped head , and glossy dark brown hair . She possesses a great deal of that useful gift the Americans call ...
... bright and pleasant as ever . Mrs. Thwaites is a busy , active little woman , with a genial face and trim figure , a well - shaped head , and glossy dark brown hair . She possesses a great deal of that useful gift the Americans call ...
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... bright , keen , and clever , neither averse to society nor sociability , and always delighted to have " her boys , ” as she calls them , about the old house . But things have strangely altered now . Ralph is disin- herited for no other ...
... bright , keen , and clever , neither averse to society nor sociability , and always delighted to have " her boys , ” as she calls them , about the old house . But things have strangely altered now . Ralph is disin- herited for no other ...
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... bright little sayings and doings of whom Gertrude is apt to repeat for her husband's gratification , and which he is ever ready to smile at and enjoy . Thus they pass the quiet tea - hour on that Saturday evening . It is a calm , happy ...
... bright little sayings and doings of whom Gertrude is apt to repeat for her husband's gratification , and which he is ever ready to smile at and enjoy . Thus they pass the quiet tea - hour on that Saturday evening . It is a calm , happy ...
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... bright landscape with the noon - day sun pouring down a flood of golden splendour . Before the house an ample lawn that seems to merge , on either side , into pretty park- like enclosures of trees and shrubs . Further off , broad fields ...
... bright landscape with the noon - day sun pouring down a flood of golden splendour . Before the house an ample lawn that seems to merge , on either side , into pretty park- like enclosures of trees and shrubs . Further off , broad fields ...
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... bright again . This reservoir Leonard mentions is a much - frequented retreat of the curate and his wife in the summer twilight . Though there is not much beauty in the place , it is quiet and secluded . A deep , huge basin of water ...
... bright again . This reservoir Leonard mentions is a much - frequented retreat of the curate and his wife in the summer twilight . Though there is not much beauty in the place , it is quiet and secluded . A deep , huge basin of water ...
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Alice Alice's Atkin Aunt Hetty's BARBARA HUTTON better boys bright by-and-by Cape Coast Castle carriage child cloth elegant coloured comes Coomassie Cosmorama curate curate's daughter dear dinner door Eastown exclaims eyes face Fairy FANCY Fcap feels Gertrude Gertrude's Gerty gilt edges girl give glances goes Grey Towers GRIFFITH AND FARRAN Gurling hand happiness HARRISON WEIR heart Hetty hope husband Illustrations by Harrison Katie Katie's Khedive Lady West laugh Lenny Leonard Thwaites look Lusatia mamma mind Miss Thwaites morning mother never nursery once Perhaps Philip Post 8vo PUBLISHED BY GRIFFITH Ralph Burges REALMS OF FANCY replies round Sarah says Second Edition seems Shillings and Sixpence Sir Stanley West Slopeley smile Squire Burges STORIES sure TAEPING talk tell things Thomas Burges THOMAS HOOD thought Tom Hood tone voice walk wife Wilford wonder words young Zipporah
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