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... debts , reducing his scattered property to a tangible shape , and leaving her son in actual possession of about two thousand pounds , with which he hoped he would be enabled to set out advantageously in life , being assured by all who ...
... debts , reducing his scattered property to a tangible shape , and leaving her son in actual possession of about two thousand pounds , with which he hoped he would be enabled to set out advantageously in life , being assured by all who ...
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... debt for mere necessaries , her anxiety became more distressing ; and her creditors were so urgent for payment , when her husband thus incautiously forsook her , leaving her a mes- sage to follow him , without reflecting on the ...
... debt for mere necessaries , her anxiety became more distressing ; and her creditors were so urgent for payment , when her husband thus incautiously forsook her , leaving her a mes- sage to follow him , without reflecting on the ...
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... debt he had no means of dis- charging , and exposed his wife and innocent children to bear the brunt of misfortune and the sufferings of poverty . Stung more with the severity of this sentence than the truth it contained , since he ...
... debt he had no means of dis- charging , and exposed his wife and innocent children to bear the brunt of misfortune and the sufferings of poverty . Stung more with the severity of this sentence than the truth it contained , since he ...
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... debt , " said the boy , thoughtfully ; " especially with ignorant people : -it breaks my heart to think my father should sleep by himself in a prison ; let us go to him , dear mother . ” Mrs Lewis , as well as her trembling limbs would ...
... debt , " said the boy , thoughtfully ; " especially with ignorant people : -it breaks my heart to think my father should sleep by himself in a prison ; let us go to him , dear mother . ” Mrs Lewis , as well as her trembling limbs would ...
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... debt : and then next week I shall have done the pictures , and if I have a crown for four , how much shall I get for a dozen ? " As Ludovico had only learned a very little of accounts from his mother , this sum , though small , was a ...
... debt : and then next week I shall have done the pictures , and if I have a crown for four , how much shall I get for a dozen ? " As Ludovico had only learned a very little of accounts from his mother , this sum , though small , was a ...
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