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... English things we can get ! All English things are nice , because you are English , mamma ! And you are so very , very nice ! " " And isn't Aunt Carly English ? " " Yes , mamma , " said Leonora . Only when you were a little tiny little ...
... English things we can get ! All English things are nice , because you are English , mamma ! And you are so very , very nice ! " " And isn't Aunt Carly English ? " " Yes , mamma , " said Leonora . Only when you were a little tiny little ...
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... English life , and that the climate here would not be good for me ; so it was all meant to be careful and kind . Always recollect that , if ever you have to go and live with her , and always recollect I told you of it . " " Oh , mamma ...
... English life , and that the climate here would not be good for me ; so it was all meant to be careful and kind . Always recollect that , if ever you have to go and live with her , and always recollect I told you of it . " " Oh , mamma ...
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... English sixpence , not a great , broad , big Yankee dollar ! " " All right , missie , " said Bocko , ducking his head to get out of another maize - shower ; " sing him up ! " When Lee and Bee began― " Stand me up , please , and trundle ...
... English sixpence , not a great , broad , big Yankee dollar ! " " All right , missie , " said Bocko , ducking his head to get out of another maize - shower ; " sing him up ! " When Lee and Bee began― " Stand me up , please , and trundle ...
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... English sixpences ; they never saw their home again as they saw it then . There it stood , beautiful . It had an avenue of cocoa - nut trees in one direction ; it had clusters of mangroves , where the Barbadoes blackbird , or the cling ...
... English sixpences ; they never saw their home again as they saw it then . There it stood , beautiful . It had an avenue of cocoa - nut trees in one direction ; it had clusters of mangroves , where the Barbadoes blackbird , or the cling ...
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... English children , as buttercups and daisies are , and the dog - rose , and hawthorn , and the meadow - sweet , and rye , and barley . Yes ; Golden Edge was a lovely home . It was like a sweet neat drawing , for prettiness , in some ...
... English children , as buttercups and daisies are , and the dog - rose , and hawthorn , and the meadow - sweet , and rye , and barley . Yes ; Golden Edge was a lovely home . It was like a sweet neat drawing , for prettiness , in some ...
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answer asked Aunt Carly baby Bee's Blue Mountain View Bocko brother brought called Carly's Casserly cats Cinchona cloth elegant coloured cried Beatrice cried Bee cried Leonora dear little dress English Ernest told everything eyes Fcap Fonseca funny G. A. HENTY gave gilt edges give Golden Edge Hail Columbia hand HARRISON WEIR head hear heard High Steep Illustrations Jamaica Julius Cæsar kiss knew Lady laugh Lee and Bee Lee's Leonora and Beatrice lessons little Bee little Casserlys Little Dene little girls look mamma Marg the Mite mental band Miss Brydie Miss Chester Missie Lenore Moussa never nice Nursie papa Penwood perhaps pretty punishment round sailors seemed servants Shillings Shillings and Sixpence ship sister stay Stories sure tell things thought Vano W. H. G. KINGSTON wanted whilst wonder word
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