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... For Amy was not an only child . Her brother Hubert , a year younger , and her sister Clara , two years older than herself , with a baby brother number- A ing only three years , formed a merry little party. AMY'S HOME, I.
... For Amy was not an only child . Her brother Hubert , a year younger , and her sister Clara , two years older than herself , with a baby brother number- A ing only three years , formed a merry little party. AMY'S HOME, I.
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... Hubert , and then you could black our shoes , and we would give you as many kicks as you liked . ' ' Oh ! but that would only be playing at Cinderella , ' said Amy scornfully ; ' I should like to be the real thing . Only think to have a ...
... Hubert , and then you could black our shoes , and we would give you as many kicks as you liked . ' ' Oh ! but that would only be playing at Cinderella , ' said Amy scornfully ; ' I should like to be the real thing . Only think to have a ...
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... Hubert , laughing . ' But I should change back again , and marry the Prince at last , ' said Amy , and live in a palace always , and have no nasty lessons to do , nor this dreary hem to finish , ' she said with a sigh , taking up her ...
... Hubert , laughing . ' But I should change back again , and marry the Prince at last , ' said Amy , and live in a palace always , and have no nasty lessons to do , nor this dreary hem to finish , ' she said with a sigh , taking up her ...
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... Hubert came and asked me to help him to move his rabbits from the old hutch into the new one , and when I told him I couldn't come , he said he only wanted me for a few minutes , and help- ing him put poor Evans's soup quite out of my ...
... Hubert came and asked me to help him to move his rabbits from the old hutch into the new one , and when I told him I couldn't come , he said he only wanted me for a few minutes , and help- ing him put poor Evans's soup quite out of my ...
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... Hubert so impatient , he can't wait an instant for whatever he takes a fancy to , so that I'm often near at my wits ' end between you . ' Well , nurse dear , you needn't get to your wits ' end any longer for me , for I am going to begin ...
... Hubert so impatient , he can't wait an instant for whatever he takes a fancy to , so that I'm often near at my wits ' end between you . ' Well , nurse dear , you needn't get to your wits ' end any longer for me , for I am going to begin ...
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ABSOLON Adventures Amy felt Amy's Apollo BARBARA HUTTON basket bird butterfly child Clara cloth elegant coloured companion creature danced dear delicious dressed Ellise Engravings exclaimed eyes Fairy Queen Fairyland fancy Fcap fear flowers forget Fourth Edition Frontispiece garden gates gentle gilt edges Hall of Light hand happy HARRISON WEIR head heard History Hubert Illustrations JOHN TIMBS kissing Lady Fritillary laughing leaf Lessons Lily Fay little fairies little girl lovely maids of honour mamma Miss Amy morocco mother naughty never nosegay nurse papa plain Poor Beauty Post 8vo pretty Price 6d rainbow replied Sylphina Royal 16mo Second Edition sing sister song sorry stars stop Stories suddenly Super-royal 16mo sweet tear tell thee there's Third Edition THOMAS DARNELL THOMAS HOOD thou thought toad TOM HOOD tone tree Trolls Venus voice whisper wings wish wonder young
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