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... opened two double bedrooms and one single one . Our family was called the Amen Corner , because our initials , arranged as an acrostic , spelled the word Amen , and because we were a set of little Pharisees , prigs , and " digs , " not ...
... opened two double bedrooms and one single one . Our family was called the Amen Corner , because our initials , arranged as an acrostic , spelled the word Amen , and because we were a set of little Pharisees , prigs , and " digs , " not ...
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... opened from our parlor into the hospital ward . Madame had made abundant provision for sickness in the original arrangement of the school building . A large sky - lighted room had been set apart as an infirmary , and a little suite of ...
... opened from our parlor into the hospital ward . Madame had made abundant provision for sickness in the original arrangement of the school building . A large sky - lighted room had been set apart as an infirmary , and a little suite of ...
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... opened the commissary and offered the artist some of our choicest dainties . He accepted our largess , and retired with polite invitations for us to be " neighborly " and " to call again . " " Not in just that way , " I replied , and I ...
... opened the commissary and offered the artist some of our choicest dainties . He accepted our largess , and retired with polite invitations for us to be " neighborly " and " to call again . " " Not in just that way , " I replied , and I ...
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... opened out- ward from our parlor into the studio . Professor Waite had placed a heavy carved chest against it on his side , so that there was no danger of its flying open , and we had uncorded the knob and rolled Adelaide's trunk back ...
... opened out- ward from our parlor into the studio . Professor Waite had placed a heavy carved chest against it on his side , so that there was no danger of its flying open , and we had uncorded the knob and rolled Adelaide's trunk back ...
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... opened the doors of her tenement house freely to unscrupulous and undeserving peo- ple ; that she would have easily credited every woeful story , and have remitted rents when it would have been no real kindness to do so . He therefore ...
... opened the doors of her tenement house freely to unscrupulous and undeserving peo- ple ; that she would have easily credited every woeful story , and have remitted rents when it would have been no real kindness to do so . He therefore ...
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