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... wish we were going to stay here all the holidays , instead of going to that horrid old Marsh . ' Unfortunate speech ! Fond as we all were of our present home , none of us would ever allow for a moment that it could compare with our old ...
... wish we were going to stay here all the holidays , instead of going to that horrid old Marsh . ' Unfortunate speech ! Fond as we all were of our present home , none of us would ever allow for a moment that it could compare with our old ...
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... wish which Margie said she could have understood if he had been going back to Holywell , but now - bah ! -she had thought better of Tony ! On the whole , Frank behaved better during those holidays than we had feared . He was not openly ...
... wish which Margie said she could have understood if he had been going back to Holywell , but now - bah ! -she had thought better of Tony ! On the whole , Frank behaved better during those holidays than we had feared . He was not openly ...
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... wish I could ride , ' said Violet . I used to drive in the carriage every day in London , but I think riding would be nicer . ' ' I thought I heard voices ! ' exclaimed some one behind the laurels ; and a pretty young girl of nineteen ...
... wish I could ride , ' said Violet . I used to drive in the carriage every day in London , but I think riding would be nicer . ' ' I thought I heard voices ! ' exclaimed some one behind the laurels ; and a pretty young girl of nineteen ...
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... wish you had remembered before ! ' said Ronald . ' Oh , Ronald ! surely she can't have gone after him , ' cried Rose ; in this storm too ! ' " I'll go off directly and see , ' exclaimed Theodore ; but Ronald stopped him , saying : ' No ...
... wish you had remembered before ! ' said Ronald . ' Oh , Ronald ! surely she can't have gone after him , ' cried Rose ; in this storm too ! ' " I'll go off directly and see , ' exclaimed Theodore ; but Ronald stopped him , saying : ' No ...
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... wish for some months before , and had been saving up his money ever since in order to give it me handsomely bound . But the last puzzled me more than any . It was done up as if it had come by post , and on opening it , I found a very ...
... wish for some months before , and had been saving up his money ever since in order to give it me handsomely bound . But the last puzzled me more than any . It was done up as if it had come by post , and on opening it , I found a very ...
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ADVENTURES arms asked Auld Lang Syne aunt Rosie Author BARBARA HUTTON beautiful Biddy Birdie birthday breakfast called Charlie child Clavell cloth elegant cobwebs coloured plates cried dark dress exclaimed Fairy fancy Fcap flowers Fourth Edition Frank G. A. HENTY garden gilt edges gossamer hair hands HARRISON WEIR heard Helmore History holidays Illustrated by HARRISON Katie laugh Levi long trailer look mamma Margie Marsh Miss Law morocco mother never night Numbers once plain poor Poor Violet Post 8vo pretty price 6d Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Rhymes Rose round rushing scarcely Second Edition Shillings Shillings and Sixpence shout Spurn Point storm story Strahan Super Royal 16mo Tale tell Theodore thing Third Edition THOMAS DARNELL THOMAS HOOD thought told Tony uncle Ronald Violet voice W. H. G. KINGSTON walk waves wonder wood Words young
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