All the Year RoundChapman and Hall, 1889 |
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... wife , who might have been separated but five minutes instead of five days . Everything about Captain Oliver was subdued and unpronounced , except the strong odour of cigars , which always accompanied him . His features were well ...
... wife , who might have been separated but five minutes instead of five days . Everything about Captain Oliver was subdued and unpronounced , except the strong odour of cigars , which always accompanied him . His features were well ...
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... wife , nor ever likely to be , she is still actuated by the truest spirit of wifehood , by that changeless love and fealty that shares all sorrows and all burdens , be they great or small . With that deriding , bitter laughter in her ...
... wife , nor ever likely to be , she is still actuated by the truest spirit of wifehood , by that changeless love and fealty that shares all sorrows and all burdens , be they great or small . With that deriding , bitter laughter in her ...
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... wife , who smiled pleasantly , and now and then put in a word , which was all her husband wanted to keep him going . Maude was even more nervous than I , and when she followed her mother from the room , and I ventured to squeeze her ...
... wife , who smiled pleasantly , and now and then put in a word , which was all her husband wanted to keep him going . Maude was even more nervous than I , and when she followed her mother from the room , and I ventured to squeeze her ...
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... wife what a handsome young fellow he had been , the same Colonel -he must have been only a lieutenant then -with curled ambrosial whiskers . But what was it that struck me all of a heap , as I examined this last portrait ? Why , the ...
... wife what a handsome young fellow he had been , the same Colonel -he must have been only a lieutenant then -with curled ambrosial whiskers . But what was it that struck me all of a heap , as I examined this last portrait ? Why , the ...
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... wife ; nay , was his wife , and that he must use every power he possessed , and strain every energy , to save her from a terrible fate . That she stood , a fatal barrier , between himself and the woman he loved with every fibre of his ...
... wife ; nay , was his wife , and that he must use every power he possessed , and strain every energy , to save her from a terrible fate . That she stood , a fatal barrier , between himself and the woman he loved with every fibre of his ...
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