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... asked Ernest just to run down the avenue , at the side of the house , to fetch her little work - bag , which she had left hanging there on the gate at the end of it , when she was sitting at work in the afternoon , that it would ...
... asked Ernest just to run down the avenue , at the side of the house , to fetch her little work - bag , which she had left hanging there on the gate at the end of it , when she was sitting at work in the afternoon , that it would ...
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... asked . " I wanted just to tell you that if you mind go- ing for this bag , in the very least , I do not want you to do so , and will send one of the servants ; but you know I am asking you to go because you said that you wished I would ...
... asked . " I wanted just to tell you that if you mind go- ing for this bag , in the very least , I do not want you to do so , and will send one of the servants ; but you know I am asking you to go because you said that you wished I would ...
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... asked Edward to go on a little in advance , and keep master Punch in sight all the way , so that should he be at all frightened he might speak to him and let him know that he was near . Punch reached the avenue and was walking leisurely ...
... asked Edward to go on a little in advance , and keep master Punch in sight all the way , so that should he be at all frightened he might speak to him and let him know that he was near . Punch reached the avenue and was walking leisurely ...
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... asked when they went to bed , " that you could go all the way down the avenue ? Didn't those men in the trees plot against you at all ? " " Which men ? " Ernest asked . 66 Well , I don't know who they were , but they were plotting ...
... asked when they went to bed , " that you could go all the way down the avenue ? Didn't those men in the trees plot against you at all ? " " Which men ? " Ernest asked . 66 Well , I don't know who they were , but they were plotting ...
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... asked practical Ernest . " I didn't hear that either , but I expect it was Punch . Do you think people will ever call me ' Punch ' when I am a man ? " " No , I expect they will call you ' Capel ' then , like the boys do at school ...
... asked practical Ernest . " I didn't hear that either , but I expect it was Punch . Do you think people will ever call me ' Punch ' when I am a man ? " " No , I expect they will call you ' Capel ' then , like the boys do at school ...
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African Wanderers ANNE BEALE Aunt Violet BARBARA HUTTON beautiful better Biancheri Bordighera boys bridge brother carriage cloth elegant coloured Illustrations coriandoli dear Ernest and Punch Ernest answered Ernest asked Ernie fancy father favourite Fcap flowers France French frightened G. A. HENTY Garibaldi GELLIE gilt edges girls glad grandmother granny GRIFFITH AND FARRAN hand HARRISON WEIR hills Italian Italy jolly knew LONDON lovely MARRYAT NORRIS Menton Miss Capel Monaco mother never old town olive paper boards PAUL'S CHURCHYARD Picture pretty Prince of Monaco Punch answered Punch asked Punch looked Punch replied Punch then asked Roccabruna San Remo Sasso seemed seen Shillings and Sixpence soon splendid spoke strange table d'hôte tell thing thought Three Shillings tired to-day told train trees Ventimiglia W. H. G. KINGSTON walk wanted watching wish wonder Young
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