Left alone, or, The fortunes of Phillis Maitland1879 |
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... society and companionship . He was a successful London physician , and at his house was always to be met the cream of London professional society - barristers , authors , doctors , men who had made or who were making their own way in ...
... society and companionship . He was a successful London physician , and at his house was always to be met the cream of London professional society - barristers , authors , doctors , men who had made or who were making their own way in ...
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... society , ' which he himself did not care for ; and sometimes , as this evening , she was happy enough to persuade her son to be her escort- that son in whom her pride and delight were as great as that of her husband in his daughter ...
... society , ' which he himself did not care for ; and sometimes , as this evening , she was happy enough to persuade her son to be her escort- that son in whom her pride and delight were as great as that of her husband in his daughter ...
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... society a good deal with your mother , and I shall see much less of you ; but I shall trust to your good sense , and even to your love for me , not to be led away by your mother's ambition , or by soft speeches or brilliant prospects ...
... society a good deal with your mother , and I shall see much less of you ; but I shall trust to your good sense , and even to your love for me , not to be led away by your mother's ambition , or by soft speeches or brilliant prospects ...
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... leaving London , and the society she so much loved , to bury herself at Hamsford . The reason she gave for the change was the comparative smallness of her income , which made economy a necessity ; but 14 LEFT ALONE .
... leaving London , and the society she so much loved , to bury herself at Hamsford . The reason she gave for the change was the comparative smallness of her income , which made economy a necessity ; but 14 LEFT ALONE .
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... Society of her own rank she had almost none . She did not wait for those county families who had shown kindness to her in her mother's lifetime to drop her acquaintance ( as she felt they inevitably must ) ; she ceased to visit them ...
... Society of her own rank she had almost none . She did not wait for those county families who had shown kindness to her in her mother's lifetime to drop her acquaintance ( as she felt they inevitably must ) ; she ceased to visit them ...
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