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Ellen Pickering. TO BE , OR NOT TO BE ? CHARACTERS . MOWBRAY TILSON FOWLER GARBETT MISS GREY DOWLAN TO BE , OR NOT TO BE ? Enter Mowbray.
Ellen Pickering. TO BE , OR NOT TO BE ? CHARACTERS . MOWBRAY TILSON FOWLER GARBETT MISS GREY DOWLAN TO BE , OR NOT TO BE ? Enter Mowbray.
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... Miss Grey . MOWBRAY , ( eagerly . ) Have I ? TIL . ( laughing . ) And lost your own , as that eager tone tells . A love match for the edification of the worldly . Mow . Seriously , Tilson , have you any war- rant for what you say ? TIL ...
... Miss Grey . MOWBRAY , ( eagerly . ) Have I ? TIL . ( laughing . ) And lost your own , as that eager tone tells . A love match for the edification of the worldly . Mow . Seriously , Tilson , have you any war- rant for what you say ? TIL ...
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... Miss Grey and her friends may desire what the world calls a better match . TIL . Commend me to your modesty truly that modesty , if real , is marvellous in this self- sufficient age . A good old baronetage , with a clear estate of ...
... Miss Grey and her friends may desire what the world calls a better match . TIL . Commend me to your modesty truly that modesty , if real , is marvellous in this self- sufficient age . A good old baronetage , with a clear estate of ...
Page 73
Ellen Pickering. extravagant could Miss Grey and her friends desire more ? Mow . ( starting . ) twelve thousand a year ! An old baronetage and TIL . Just what I say . What do you mean ? Did you suppose you could keep incog ? No , no , we ...
Ellen Pickering. extravagant could Miss Grey and her friends desire more ? Mow . ( starting . ) twelve thousand a year ! An old baronetage and TIL . Just what I say . What do you mean ? Did you suppose you could keep incog ? No , no , we ...
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... Miss Grey share the general opinion ? TIL . To be sure . Do you suppose she would have been so gracious to a stranger with no ser- vant , no horse , and but one portmanteau ? No , no : high - minded as you consider her , depend upon it ...
... Miss Grey share the general opinion ? TIL . To be sure . Do you suppose she would have been so gracious to a stranger with no ser- vant , no horse , and but one portmanteau ? No , no : high - minded as you consider her , depend upon it ...
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