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... answer your expectations and entertain you as they did me . I dare say they will seem to you at first very like other stories you have read , but if you follow them attentively you will trace many singular national characteristics . One ...
... answer your expectations and entertain you as they did me . I dare say they will seem to you at first very like other stories you have read , but if you follow them attentively you will trace many singular national characteristics . One ...
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... answered the Countess , with a faltering voice . " And why do you come hither ? ” " I go over all countries seeking my long lost husband , and so by chance I came here too . I have gone through perils on the sea , and hardships on the ...
... answered the Countess , with a faltering voice . " And why do you come hither ? ” " I go over all countries seeking my long lost husband , and so by chance I came here too . I have gone through perils on the sea , and hardships on the ...
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... answered the first . " The best thing we can do , " rejoined the second . " And the sooner the better , " continued the first . " Here we go , then , " added the second ; and they turned their horses ' heads round , like chicken ...
... answered the first . " The best thing we can do , " rejoined the second . " And the sooner the better , " continued the first . " Here we go , then , " added the second ; and they turned their horses ' heads round , like chicken ...
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... answered the youth . " But I tell you the thing can't be done ! " ejacu- lated the second . " When I go out to do a thing I don't go back without doing it , " said the youngest , quietly . " But as there is a considerable distance to be ...
... answered the youth . " But I tell you the thing can't be done ! " ejacu- lated the second . " When I go out to do a thing I don't go back without doing it , " said the youngest , quietly . " But as there is a considerable distance to be ...
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... answered , courteously , - " I have been to fill my flask with water which flows over the sharp rock in the mountains of Sclavonia ! " When they heard that , their first impulse was to spring upon him and take the prize from him ; but ...
... answered , courteously , - " I have been to fill my flask with water which flows over the sharp rock in the mountains of Sclavonia ! " When they heard that , their first impulse was to spring upon him and take the prize from him ; but ...
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