The court and the cottageGriffith & Farran, 1883 - 330 pages |
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... bright knitting - needles between Miss Adelaide's fingers ceased their click , and lay upon her flowered muslin gown - motionless ! The buzzing of a bluebottle fly on the window- pane , the hum of a bee as it flew past from the lavender ...
... bright knitting - needles between Miss Adelaide's fingers ceased their click , and lay upon her flowered muslin gown - motionless ! The buzzing of a bluebottle fly on the window- pane , the hum of a bee as it flew past from the lavender ...
Page 17
... bright , merry little river , which danced over rocks with a jocund sound , and whispered softer songs to the overhanging fronds of the hart's - tongue fern , when for a few hundred yards it rippled quietly through small pebbles ...
... bright , merry little river , which danced over rocks with a jocund sound , and whispered softer songs to the overhanging fronds of the hart's - tongue fern , when for a few hundred yards it rippled quietly through small pebbles ...
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... bright , cheery person of forty , came into the room with Miss Adelaide , who was enchanted with the gift of a pair of little fantails which Susie was to bring over to the Cottage as soon as they were old enough to leave the nest ; and ...
... bright , cheery person of forty , came into the room with Miss Adelaide , who was enchanted with the gift of a pair of little fantails which Susie was to bring over to the Cottage as soon as they were old enough to leave the nest ; and ...
Page 49
... bright sky of their home - life three years ago ; and though time , that wondrous healer , had softened the keen edge of the sorrow , neither Mr. nor Mrs. Huntingdon could ever be quite the same again . Scarlet fever had come into the ...
... bright sky of their home - life three years ago ; and though time , that wondrous healer , had softened the keen edge of the sorrow , neither Mr. nor Mrs. Huntingdon could ever be quite the same again . Scarlet fever had come into the ...
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... bright and clever , gifted both in mind and person , and needing in all ways the watchful care of her tender yet judicious mother . The two sisters were inseparable , and Mrs. Huntingdon could not bear to part them by sending the ...
... bright and clever , gifted both in mind and person , and needing in all ways the watchful care of her tender yet judicious mother . The two sisters were inseparable , and Mrs. Huntingdon could not bear to part them by sending the ...
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Adelaide's African Wanderers afternoon Aunt Dorothy BARBARA HUTTON Bellingham Berkley Book bright Broome Broome's carriage cloth elegant Colonel Bradshaw Cottage Court Cousin Daisy daresay dear door drawing-room Elfrida asked exclaimed eyes face Fcap feel G. A. HENTY GELLIE gilt edges girl gone governess Grannie hand HARRISON WEIR hear heard hope Huntingdon Isola Bella Jack Jack Bruce laughed Leonora Clarke Lily look Lord Maintree luncheon MARRYAT NORRIS Meredith Miss Adelaide Miss Elfrida Miss Firths Miss Ponsonby mother never niece o'clock Ponsonby's poor child Price Reginald Reuben seemed Shillings Shillings and Sixpence Signor Montalozzi sister song soon stood Stories sure Susie Bruce talk telegram tell thing Thorpe Bishop thought Titmouse to-day to-morrow told Uncle Rex Vicarage voice W. H. G. KINGSTON wait walked window wish wonder young lady
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