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... hand at needlework in the parish . In those primitive days this was amply sufficient , and indeed so highly satisfactory , that the Vicar of Shorebury ( who would as soon have thought of giving her up his pulpit , as of invading her ...
... hand at needlework in the parish . In those primitive days this was amply sufficient , and indeed so highly satisfactory , that the Vicar of Shorebury ( who would as soon have thought of giving her up his pulpit , as of invading her ...
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... hand he took it off again , and folding it up , buttoned it inside his ragged waistcoat . Polly Twaddle had wit- nessed the whole scene , and her warm child's heart , touched by his distress , sidled up to Moses , and offered him her ...
... hand he took it off again , and folding it up , buttoned it inside his ragged waistcoat . Polly Twaddle had wit- nessed the whole scene , and her warm child's heart , touched by his distress , sidled up to Moses , and offered him her ...
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... hand ; so with a burst of wild , bitter crying , poor Polly Twaddle sat down to bewail her condition . But she was not a silly , helpless girl , content with wringing her hands and sobbing . After she had exhausted all her ideas of her ...
... hand ; so with a burst of wild , bitter crying , poor Polly Twaddle sat down to bewail her condition . But she was not a silly , helpless girl , content with wringing her hands and sobbing . After she had exhausted all her ideas of her ...
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... hand . True Moses was there , and peering like a rat between the bars of a trap at his imprisoned friend , as well as the dim light would allow him . i And now Moses ' long , ungainly limbs , and Polly's habits of active , healthy ...
... hand . True Moses was there , and peering like a rat between the bars of a trap at his imprisoned friend , as well as the dim light would allow him . i And now Moses ' long , ungainly limbs , and Polly's habits of active , healthy ...
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... hand , in the vain hope of espying some craft in want of a conductor , and then perhaps two or three would appear on ... hands on any profits , would have pinched and stinted themselves within an inch of their lives in a provident dread ...
... hand , in the vain hope of espying some craft in want of a conductor , and then perhaps two or three would appear on ... hands on any profits , would have pinched and stinted themselves within an inch of their lives in a provident dread ...
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