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Page 156
... Hitty worried declensions and particles , as persevering- her innocent soul over conjugations and ly as any professor could have desired . But the dreadful part of the lessons to Hitty was the recitation after tea ; no matter how well ...
... Hitty worried declensions and particles , as persevering- her innocent soul over conjugations and ly as any professor could have desired . But the dreadful part of the lessons to Hitty was the recitation after tea ; no matter how well ...
Page 157
... Hitty ; her father admitted no nursing but hers . Month after month rolled away , and the numb grasp grad- ually ... Hitty's life was spent between the two parlors and the kitchen ; for the room her dead moth- er had so decorated was now ...
... Hitty ; her father admitted no nursing but hers . Month after month rolled away , and the numb grasp grad- ually ... Hitty's life was spent between the two parlors and the kitchen ; for the room her dead moth- er had so decorated was now ...
Page 158
... Hitty Hyde , the freshness of inexperi- ence . Her soul was as guileless and as ignorant as a child's ; and she was strand- ed on life , with a large fortune , like a helmless ship , heavily loaded , that breaks from its anchor , and ...
... Hitty Hyde , the freshness of inexperi- ence . Her soul was as guileless and as ignorant as a child's ; and she was strand- ed on life , with a large fortune , like a helmless ship , heavily loaded , that breaks from its anchor , and ...
Page 159
... Hitty , in all her life , enough to aid and counsel her as he had already done ? At first she was half afraid of him ; then she liked him ; then he was " so good to me ! " and then - she pitied him ! for he told her , sitting on that ...
... Hitty , in all her life , enough to aid and counsel her as he had already done ? At first she was half afraid of him ; then she liked him ; then he was " so good to me ! " and then - she pitied him ! for he told her , sitting on that ...
Page 160
... Hitty forgot ev- erything but that he loved her ; and the next week they were married . Here , by every law of custom , ought my weary pen to fall flat and refuse its office ; for it is here that the fate of every hero- ine culminates ...
... Hitty forgot ev- erything but that he loved her ; and the next week they were married . Here , by every law of custom , ought my weary pen to fall flat and refuse its office ; for it is here that the fate of every hero- ine culminates ...
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