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... twenty - five dollars a week allow- ance- -pay to be stopped when I wasn't at home ! ' The roar of laughter that greeted this frank confession was broken by a quiet voice asking , ' And what AN HEIRESS OF RED DOG . 11.
... twenty - five dollars a week allow- ance- -pay to be stopped when I wasn't at home ! ' The roar of laughter that greeted this frank confession was broken by a quiet voice asking , ' And what AN HEIRESS OF RED DOG . 11.
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And Other Tales Bret Harte. broken by a quiet voice asking , ' And what did you say ? ' ' Say ? ' screamed Jack , ' I just told her to with her money . ' They say , ' continued the quiet voice , ' that you asked her for the loan of two ...
And Other Tales Bret Harte. broken by a quiet voice asking , ' And what did you say ? ' ' Say ? ' screamed Jack , ' I just told her to with her money . ' They say , ' continued the quiet voice , ' that you asked her for the loan of two ...
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... asked , huskily and nervously . ' I am , and I want you to get up too . ' ' I can't , Jack . I'm regularly done up . ' He reached his shaking hand towards a glass half - filled with suspicious , pungent - smelling liquid , but Mr ...
... asked , huskily and nervously . ' I am , and I want you to get up too . ' ' I can't , Jack . I'm regularly done up . ' He reached his shaking hand towards a glass half - filled with suspicious , pungent - smelling liquid , but Mr ...
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... asked . ' Fair enough , I warrant , ' said Mr. Clinch with pon- derous gallantry ; ' but methinks ' tis nothing , compared with the nectar that grows on those ruby lips ! Nay , by St. Ursula , I swear it ! ' No sooner had this solemnly ...
... asked . ' Fair enough , I warrant , ' said Mr. Clinch with pon- derous gallantry ; ' but methinks ' tis nothing , compared with the nectar that grows on those ruby lips ! Nay , by St. Ursula , I swear it ! ' No sooner had this solemnly ...
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... asking himself these very questions in a stilted sort of rhetoric , and with a rising brutality of anger that was new to him . And then everything swam before him , and he seemed to lose all consciousness . But only for an instant ...
... asking himself these very questions in a stilted sort of rhetoric , and with a rising brutality of anger that was new to him . And then everything swam before him , and he seemed to lose all consciousness . But only for an instant ...
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