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... whole story over again ! " John Corbett , the over - worked and under - paid curate of Whitchurch , was one of the right sort . He had more of the essence than the accidents of gentility about him . He used to say , as he tried to rub ...
... whole story over again ! " John Corbett , the over - worked and under - paid curate of Whitchurch , was one of the right sort . He had more of the essence than the accidents of gentility about him . He used to say , as he tried to rub ...
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... whole case before him at once , has the least chance of being useful . I'll tell you what was of a deal of service to me before I went to Magdalen , that was , the conversations I had from Jameson about Cambridge - for there he saw a ...
... whole case before him at once , has the least chance of being useful . I'll tell you what was of a deal of service to me before I went to Magdalen , that was , the conversations I had from Jameson about Cambridge - for there he saw a ...
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... whole brood of extravagances all under the denomination of necessaries ' for such I was persuaded was a coffee - house bill . Ah , well ! - if Hicks and some of us had our time over again , we shouldn't be too lazy to eat a dinner we ...
... whole brood of extravagances all under the denomination of necessaries ' for such I was persuaded was a coffee - house bill . Ah , well ! - if Hicks and some of us had our time over again , we shouldn't be too lazy to eat a dinner we ...
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... whole . Our friends of Magdalene College , Cambridge , it is true , are , in every respect , unexceptionable , but not more so than the best sets at Oriel , Baliol , and Trinity College , Oxford ; but then , what college is there in ...
... whole . Our friends of Magdalene College , Cambridge , it is true , are , in every respect , unexceptionable , but not more so than the best sets at Oriel , Baliol , and Trinity College , Oxford ; but then , what college is there in ...
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... whole bottle of the newest and the hottest of four- year - credit Oxford port ; but since , though he still liked wine , wine did not like him , it was in vain that Mr. Paxton pushed his best bottle after the second glass . Then again ...
... whole bottle of the newest and the hottest of four- year - credit Oxford port ; but since , though he still liked wine , wine did not like him , it was in vain that Mr. Paxton pushed his best bottle after the second glass . Then again ...
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