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... walls ; one of them a musical picture Sir John had given her last Christmas , with a waterfall , and a bridge , over which a train ran , a village behind it , and a real clock in the church tower . Over the chimney there was a stuffed ...
... walls ; one of them a musical picture Sir John had given her last Christmas , with a waterfall , and a bridge , over which a train ran , a village behind it , and a real clock in the church tower . Over the chimney there was a stuffed ...
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... wall for the sake of companionship , always calling it ' the other little girl in the wall . ' And now - happy ' now ' — she had Kathleen , her own bonny Kathleen , her Kathleen O'More ! ' as she used to sing in her sweet child's voice ...
... wall for the sake of companionship , always calling it ' the other little girl in the wall . ' And now - happy ' now ' — she had Kathleen , her own bonny Kathleen , her Kathleen O'More ! ' as she used to sing in her sweet child's voice ...
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... wall inside , frescoes of fat cherubs holding up wreaths of flowers , and puffing their cheeks out at butterflies which never flew away . ( There were a great many of these little boys and wreaths all through the decorations of the ...
... wall inside , frescoes of fat cherubs holding up wreaths of flowers , and puffing their cheeks out at butterflies which never flew away . ( There were a great many of these little boys and wreaths all through the decorations of the ...
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... walls , indeed , still standing . It had originally belonged , as had all the present Desborough property , to the Barons of Langholme , whose heiress John Des- mond , in James the First's reign , had married . In Charles the First's ...
... walls , indeed , still standing . It had originally belonged , as had all the present Desborough property , to the Barons of Langholme , whose heiress John Des- mond , in James the First's reign , had married . In Charles the First's ...
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... walls were so shaky , that if they dug much about the foundations , the whole thing would come down . The earth that had filled up all round and over it had helped a great deal , he said , to make it stand so long , and he advised ...
... walls were so shaky , that if they dug much about the foundations , the whole thing would come down . The earth that had filled up all round and over it had helped a great deal , he said , to make it stand so long , and he advised ...
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