Isabel's Difficulties, Or, Light on the Daily PathGriffith & Farran, Brown & Company, 1874 - 256 pages |
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... poor little breast there still raged an uproar of fury and indignation . Directly afterwards a little sallow - faced girl , her com- plexion darkened by excitement , mounted the stairs to the nurseries , bearing in her arms a very ...
... poor little breast there still raged an uproar of fury and indignation . Directly afterwards a little sallow - faced girl , her com- plexion darkened by excitement , mounted the stairs to the nurseries , bearing in her arms a very ...
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... poor child suffer- ed real pain in suppressing the fury that burned within her ; but in the face of his merciless and public ridicule , she dared not betray herself . Nor did she ever fall into a fit of univer- sal and sullen rebellion ...
... poor child suffer- ed real pain in suppressing the fury that burned within her ; but in the face of his merciless and public ridicule , she dared not betray herself . Nor did she ever fall into a fit of univer- sal and sullen rebellion ...
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... poor little girl . She could not write passably , nor spell , ' to save her life ! ' and most keenly was she alive to her stupidity and ignorance , especially since she had encountered her aunt Walpole , who never in her life had been ...
... poor little girl . She could not write passably , nor spell , ' to save her life ! ' and most keenly was she alive to her stupidity and ignorance , especially since she had encountered her aunt Walpole , who never in her life had been ...
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... Poor Grace was miserably conscious that she had no chance of writing anything else ! she took up the copy set for the two children , with abhorrence . It was difficult for her to read , but as she sat frowning over it , Isabel , who was ...
... Poor Grace was miserably conscious that she had no chance of writing anything else ! she took up the copy set for the two children , with abhorrence . It was difficult for her to read , but as she sat frowning over it , Isabel , who was ...
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... poor Isabel's en- treaties and remonstrances avail anything , except to cause so much passion on Grace's part , as to astonish and half dis- may her sister . Grace , it must be told , was not only exces- sively wroth , but she was ...
... poor Isabel's en- treaties and remonstrances avail anything , except to cause so much passion on Grace's part , as to astonish and half dis- may her sister . Grace , it must be told , was not only exces- sively wroth , but she was ...
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ADVENTURES asked aunt Walpole Author ayah BARBARA HUTTON began Bertrand Du Guesclin Billy Bob Dacres caught child Christmas Clara cloak cloth elegant Colonel Walpole coloured cried dared dear door dread dress exclaimed fancy father Fcap fear felt fierce G. A. HENTY gilt edges girl guests HARRISON WEIR hear heard Hexley Hotspur hurried Illustrations Imperial 16mo inquired Isabel Kitty knew look Luxton ma'am mamma Master Miss Grace Miss M'Ivor morning morocco mother O'Neill mummers naughty never night nurse Thirswell nursery O'Neill's paused perhaps Pincher pony Post 8vo purse replied returned Roger Second Edition Shillings shrubbery walk silence sister soon speak stairs stood story Super Royal 16mo sure tale Tear'em tell THOMAS HOOD thought to-morrow told tone tower turned uncle voice Walpole Hall Walpole's watching whilst William Luxton woman words young
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