'Bunchy'; or, The children of Scarsbrook farm |
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... sometimes hate my life ! Yes , it's a relief for me to say it sometimes I simply hate my life ! I want to be free ; I want to say , do , and think as I please , without any one interfering with me - and I can't . Even Bob's against me ...
... sometimes hate my life ! Yes , it's a relief for me to say it sometimes I simply hate my life ! I want to be free ; I want to say , do , and think as I please , without any one interfering with me - and I can't . Even Bob's against me ...
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... sometimes I was a little unladylike . It wasn't kind of Bob to say this , when he's nearly eighteen months younger than I am ; and all I had done to call forth this unbrotherly remark was to sit in a tree in the orchard , reading ...
... sometimes I was a little unladylike . It wasn't kind of Bob to say this , when he's nearly eighteen months younger than I am ; and all I had done to call forth this unbrotherly remark was to sit in a tree in the orchard , reading ...
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... Sometimes Bob and I are called the " mis- chievous B's . " This is father's name for us . Bob doesn't like to be nicknamed ; I don't mind it at all . - It is very funny , but the whole of our family seems to go in pairs . There's father ...
... Sometimes Bob and I are called the " mis- chievous B's . " This is father's name for us . Bob doesn't like to be nicknamed ; I don't mind it at all . - It is very funny , but the whole of our family seems to go in pairs . There's father ...
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... sometimes she sends for me . Then I am quite quiet . I could not talk much , or loudly , in dear mother's sick presence ; I could not wilfully worry her ; and she does not half know what a mad girl I am . I tell her little things sometimes ...
... sometimes she sends for me . Then I am quite quiet . I could not talk much , or loudly , in dear mother's sick presence ; I could not wilfully worry her ; and she does not half know what a mad girl I am . I tell her little things sometimes ...
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... sometimes to find fault- is that Neptune is my own indisputable property , given to me by my uncle - godfather six years ago . He comes next to Marmaduke in age , for he was six weeks old when I first had him , and then , I remember ...
... sometimes to find fault- is that Neptune is my own indisputable property , given to me by my uncle - godfather six years ago . He comes next to Marmaduke in age , for he was six weeks old when I first had him , and then , I remember ...
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