Isabel's Difficulties, Or, Light on the Daily PathGriffith & Farran, Brown & Company, 1874 - 256 pages |
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... caught - unlucky youth , by his uncle at the drawing - room door , and be forced by him to face the company . He was introduced to a colossal red faced man , with quite a ' hanging copse ' about his head , of sandy eyebrows and hair ...
... caught - unlucky youth , by his uncle at the drawing - room door , and be forced by him to face the company . He was introduced to a colossal red faced man , with quite a ' hanging copse ' about his head , of sandy eyebrows and hair ...
Page 18
... - too long alas ! For her brother's voice arrested her , just as she was beginning to emerge , and she slid , with a slight rustle , back into her hiding - place . The noise , slight as it was , caught the 18 ISABEL'S DIFFICULTIES .
... - too long alas ! For her brother's voice arrested her , just as she was beginning to emerge , and she slid , with a slight rustle , back into her hiding - place . The noise , slight as it was , caught the 18 ISABEL'S DIFFICULTIES .
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... caught his companion's arm , and bade him recall his dog and ' come away . ' Not a very likely thing , friend Roger ; for Hotspur , con- vinced that some fun , distasteful to Roger , might be had inside , a much more agreeable way than ...
... caught his companion's arm , and bade him recall his dog and ' come away . ' Not a very likely thing , friend Roger ; for Hotspur , con- vinced that some fun , distasteful to Roger , might be had inside , a much more agreeable way than ...
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... caught her to - night a'talking to the worst old woman in the parish , the most audacious woman , ' exclaimed Mrs Thirswell , warming with the remembrance of her wrongs , ' as dared to tell me , me , that I was a hired menial ; indeed ...
... caught her to - night a'talking to the worst old woman in the parish , the most audacious woman , ' exclaimed Mrs Thirswell , warming with the remembrance of her wrongs , ' as dared to tell me , me , that I was a hired menial ; indeed ...
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... caught her to - night a'talking to the worst old woman in the parish , the most audacious woman , ' exclaimed Mrs Thirswell , warming with the remembrance of her wrongs , ' as dared to tell me , me , that I was a hired menial ; -indeed ...
... caught her to - night a'talking to the worst old woman in the parish , the most audacious woman , ' exclaimed Mrs Thirswell , warming with the remembrance of her wrongs , ' as dared to tell me , me , that I was a hired menial ; -indeed ...
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