All the Year RoundChapman and Hall, 1889 |
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... leave it with their heads full and their pockets empty . To declare anybody an outcast was to win Clement Northcott's sympathy for him at once ; yet it was not without certain qualms of conscience that he set out upon his walk to the ...
... leave it with their heads full and their pockets empty . To declare anybody an outcast was to win Clement Northcott's sympathy for him at once ; yet it was not without certain qualms of conscience that he set out upon his walk to the ...
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... leave on receiving the hint . " You must not think of running away yet , " was Oliver's ' s very slow answer . Why don't you take a pitch here for to - night ? Our spare room is at your service , and I can drive you into Middleton to ...
... leave on receiving the hint . " You must not think of running away yet , " was Oliver's ' s very slow answer . Why don't you take a pitch here for to - night ? Our spare room is at your service , and I can drive you into Middleton to ...
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... leave the world I love so soon , Captain Dunnett and the mate were attended with all the kindness and atten- tion which was necessary for men in their exhausted condition . Jarvise was delirious ; and many weary days and restless nights ...
... leave the world I love so soon , Captain Dunnett and the mate were attended with all the kindness and atten- tion which was necessary for men in their exhausted condition . Jarvise was delirious ; and many weary days and restless nights ...
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... leave me . When the time comes I hardly know how we shall bear it , or what the days will be like to live through when he is gone . It is like facing death even to think of it ; but in all such times a woman can help a man by beating ...
... leave me . When the time comes I hardly know how we shall bear it , or what the days will be like to live through when he is gone . It is like facing death even to think of it ; but in all such times a woman can help a man by beating ...
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... leave . On the following Tuesday morning , Mr. Litton was alone in the study , a mass of loose papers on his right , a half - finished box of Clement's Intimidads on his left . He was disturbed by a tap at the door , and at once bundled ...
... leave . On the following Tuesday morning , Mr. Litton was alone in the study , a mass of loose papers on his right , a half - finished box of Clement's Intimidads on his left . He was disturbed by a tap at the door , and at once bundled ...
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