Hillsland (Cleveland): As it was Seventy Years AgoGriffith & Farran, 1881 - 301 pages |
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... immediately spoke to an aged servant who was in the room . ' Phoebe , this gentleman will sleep here . Get him anything you have for supper , and dry his clothes for the morning . ' He opened the door of a little room , and said to his ...
... immediately spoke to an aged servant who was in the room . ' Phoebe , this gentleman will sleep here . Get him anything you have for supper , and dry his clothes for the morning . ' He opened the door of a little room , and said to his ...
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... immediately made sail . All this had been done so quickly and so quietly , that it absorbed the traveller's attention , and he had not noticed that he was not the only observer from the heights he occupied . A man , looking as if sea ...
... immediately made sail . All this had been done so quickly and so quietly , that it absorbed the traveller's attention , and he had not noticed that he was not the only observer from the heights he occupied . A man , looking as if sea ...
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... immediately , and shook his head as if vexed with himself on account of his sudden alarm . The men made no remark , but looked hard at the traveller , and after he had passed and a bend of the road hid them , he heard behind him a pecu ...
... immediately , and shook his head as if vexed with himself on account of his sudden alarm . The men made no remark , but looked hard at the traveller , and after he had passed and a bend of the road hid them , he heard behind him a pecu ...
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... immediately admitted into a com- fortable but rather low room , in which he found the clergyman sitting with another tall hearty- looking man , with a generous looking face and pleasant twinkling eyes . Latimer had sent in his card ...
... immediately admitted into a com- fortable but rather low room , in which he found the clergyman sitting with another tall hearty- looking man , with a generous looking face and pleasant twinkling eyes . Latimer had sent in his card ...
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... immediately to every one in so small a place , he briefly recounted the scene he had witnessed that morning in the running of the cargo , as well as the conversation he had had with Dingrose about it , and his civility in lend- ing the ...
... immediately to every one in so small a place , he briefly recounted the scene he had witnessed that morning in the running of the cargo , as well as the conversation he had had with Dingrose about it , and his civility in lend- ing the ...
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