Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 92Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1916 - American literature |
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Page 52
... Mother Brown , Percy was getting thirty- five dollars a week , and he knew well enough that there were several hundred thousand young men in New York who would do his work as well as he did for thirty . These were the factors in Percy's ...
... Mother Brown , Percy was getting thirty- five dollars a week , and he knew well enough that there were several hundred thousand young men in New York who would do his work as well as he did for thirty . These were the factors in Percy's ...
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... mother hesitated , and the boy urged : " They say that strange man- well , some calls him the Snorter and some the Exhorter is goin ' to preach . " The mother was still silent , and the boy fal- tered on , " He dresses like the people ...
... mother hesitated , and the boy urged : " They say that strange man- well , some calls him the Snorter and some the Exhorter is goin ' to preach . " The mother was still silent , and the boy fal- tered on , " He dresses like the people ...
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... mother said . " Don't put anything but its little shimmy on ; it ' s goin ' to be another hot day . " " I believe , " the girl said , " I ' ll get some water in the tub , and wash her all over . There ' ll be time enough . " " It ' u'd ...
... mother said . " Don't put anything but its little shimmy on ; it ' s goin ' to be another hot day . " " I believe , " the girl said , " I ' ll get some water in the tub , and wash her all over . There ' ll be time enough . " " It ' u'd ...
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... mother's place . As she paused a moment in the dark oblong of the doorway , with the light flaring up into her face , Andrew for a second held his breath , so strange was her beauty , at once so proud and austere . The older women ...
... mother's place . As she paused a moment in the dark oblong of the doorway , with the light flaring up into her face , Andrew for a second held his breath , so strange was her beauty , at once so proud and austere . The older women ...
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... Mother was a great reader as a girl , she has always said . " In some subtle way he dominated An- drew . At this difficult moment it was he who had the social graces and who was equal to the situation . Of the three it was Andrew alone ...
... Mother was a great reader as a girl , she has always said . " In some subtle way he dominated An- drew . At this difficult moment it was he who had the social graces and who was equal to the situation . Of the three it was Andrew alone ...
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