Isabel's Difficulties, Or, Light on the Daily PathGriffith & Farran, Brown & Company, 1874 - 256 pages |
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... round ? I dare say you and Hot- spur would like them better than staying here ! ' ' O ! Colonel Walpole , indeed no ! ' cried the lady . ' I cannot permit ponies . Our dear boy rides the donkey- nothing else yet . You remember that ...
... round ? I dare say you and Hot- spur would like them better than staying here ! ' ' O ! Colonel Walpole , indeed no ! ' cried the lady . ' I cannot permit ponies . Our dear boy rides the donkey- nothing else yet . You remember that ...
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... round the room by the dog and Hotspur . Who shall depict Roger's fury now ! But all his frantic efforts to burst in upon the fray were in vain , until a stronger arm than his interposed , and by one determined action , broke the lock ...
... round the room by the dog and Hotspur . Who shall depict Roger's fury now ! But all his frantic efforts to burst in upon the fray were in vain , until a stronger arm than his interposed , and by one determined action , broke the lock ...
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... round his waist ; and just as the mother joined the group , this was being examined . The owner had been left where he lay , and the woman was attracted to his side from pity . There , just as the others were dipping into his gold , she ...
... round his waist ; and just as the mother joined the group , this was being examined . The owner had been left where he lay , and the woman was attracted to his side from pity . There , just as the others were dipping into his gold , she ...
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... round it ; -all in vain ! She was left perfectly undisturbed in her work : she always went at night , and no other person would venture near such a spot after night - fall -- how could they ? where the spirit of that bruised drowned man ...
... round it ; -all in vain ! She was left perfectly undisturbed in her work : she always went at night , and no other person would venture near such a spot after night - fall -- how could they ? where the spirit of that bruised drowned man ...
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... round it , but sought in vain - she was gone . Then cursing and raging , these two bold Barons mounted their horses , and with dogs and men set off in search . It was raining and blowing as if the fiends had been set loose ; an awful ...
... round it , but sought in vain - she was gone . Then cursing and raging , these two bold Barons mounted their horses , and with dogs and men set off in search . It was raining and blowing as if the fiends had been set loose ; an awful ...
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