Less Black Than We're Painted, Volume 1Chatto and Windus, 1878 - 590 pages |
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... person who had no connection , however indirect , with com- merce ; for it is aristocratic to its very scrapers . The houses are huge , but gloomy ; their windows ( far from large , and rarely of plate glass ) have probably never beheld ...
... person who had no connection , however indirect , with com- merce ; for it is aristocratic to its very scrapers . The houses are huge , but gloomy ; their windows ( far from large , and rarely of plate glass ) have probably never beheld ...
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... persons - and if fashion held sway there would doubtless be made , at what is very literally termed ' a pinch , ' to hold five hundred - there are , on the evening on which our story opens , but three indi- viduals . An old lady , with ...
... persons - and if fashion held sway there would doubtless be made , at what is very literally termed ' a pinch , ' to hold five hundred - there are , on the evening on which our story opens , but three indi- viduals . An old lady , with ...
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... person in the room , and who has only just entered it , is one of severe and pompous aspect , and would perhaps be set down by a superficial observer as the spiritual superior of the other two , whereas he is , in fact , but Mr ...
... person in the room , and who has only just entered it , is one of severe and pompous aspect , and would perhaps be set down by a superficial observer as the spiritual superior of the other two , whereas he is , in fact , but Mr ...
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... ) , but each esteemed and loved the other . Edith , though herself a person of strong practical piety , had a secret respect for the delusion under which the elder lady laboured with respect to her dead husband THAN WE'RE PAINTED . 9.
... ) , but each esteemed and loved the other . Edith , though herself a person of strong practical piety , had a secret respect for the delusion under which the elder lady laboured with respect to her dead husband THAN WE'RE PAINTED . 9.
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... persons was performed with a differ- ence . As they sat down to table , for example , on the present occasion , Lady Earnshaw bent down over her plate , mur- mured a few words , as it seemed , to the napkin outside of it , and then ...
... persons was performed with a differ- ence . As they sat down to table , for example , on the present occasion , Lady Earnshaw bent down over her plate , mur- mured a few words , as it seemed , to the napkin outside of it , and then ...
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