Grey Towers; Or, Aunty Hetty's WillGriffith and Farran, 1877 - 284 pages |
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... half aloud , as though they had been a nursery rhythm , and they bring calmness to the child by the low music of her voice , and quiet to herself by the deep earnestness of their teaching , - “ O earth , so full of dreary noises ! O men ...
... half aloud , as though they had been a nursery rhythm , and they bring calmness to the child by the low music of her voice , and quiet to herself by the deep earnestness of their teaching , - “ O earth , so full of dreary noises ! O men ...
Page 12
... half- amused , half - assumed reticence , he rigidly conceals in the depths of his own heart . Tom Burges has often been down to Grey Towers of late . Sometimes he comes there alone , at other times his wife and members of his family ...
... half- amused , half - assumed reticence , he rigidly conceals in the depths of his own heart . Tom Burges has often been down to Grey Towers of late . Sometimes he comes there alone , at other times his wife and members of his family ...
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... , yet mellowed by distance , the rude outlines are half hidden , and the hideousness is partially softened . The groups of crowded buildings with their tiled roofs , and quaint gables , the narrow streets with C 2 Aunt Hetty's Will . 19.
... , yet mellowed by distance , the rude outlines are half hidden , and the hideousness is partially softened . The groups of crowded buildings with their tiled roofs , and quaint gables , the narrow streets with C 2 Aunt Hetty's Will . 19.
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... half - a - dozen moderately fashionable ladies . He opens journals in parchment bindings , looks over papers on law and household matters , he glances at bills and receipts , pockets little sums of hoarded money , draws out huge packets ...
... half - a - dozen moderately fashionable ladies . He opens journals in parchment bindings , looks over papers on law and household matters , he glances at bills and receipts , pockets little sums of hoarded money , draws out huge packets ...
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... half watching , half dream- ing . Her very fatigue has somewhat of gratification in it , for what could have been more enjoyable to one of her stamp than the arduous duties with which she has been occu- pied on that day ? Hours and ...
... half watching , half dream- ing . Her very fatigue has somewhat of gratification in it , for what could have been more enjoyable to one of her stamp than the arduous duties with which she has been occu- pied on that day ? Hours and ...
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