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Page 96
... Miss Emily Sewell was a gentlewoman , ✓and held rigidly to various traditions of gentility which had been handed down in the Sewell family , and which afforded her brother too much quiet amusement to be disturbed . He would not have ...
... Miss Emily Sewell was a gentlewoman , ✓and held rigidly to various traditions of gentility which had been handed down in the Sewell family , and which afforded her brother too much quiet amusement to be disturbed . He would not have ...
Page 97
... Miss Emily's rule , and suffered himself to be led about by her with an air of half whimsical consciousness . Mrs. Kittridge that day had felt the full delicacy of the compliment when she ascertained by a hasty glance , before the first ...
... Miss Emily's rule , and suffered himself to be led about by her with an air of half whimsical consciousness . Mrs. Kittridge that day had felt the full delicacy of the compliment when she ascertained by a hasty glance , before the first ...
Page 98
... Mrs. Kittridge's heart at once as a delicate attention . " Mis ' Simpkins , " said Mrs. Kittridge to her pastor , as ... Miss Emily ; " I always thought that you liked rose leaves and vitriol for a gargle . " " So I do , " said the ...
... Mrs. Kittridge's heart at once as a delicate attention . " Mis ' Simpkins , " said Mrs. Kittridge to her pastor , as ... Miss Emily ; " I always thought that you liked rose leaves and vitriol for a gargle . " " So I do , " said the ...
Page 99
... Miss Emily . " Well , I must say , " said Miss Roxy , " it is a new idea to me , long as I've been nussin ' , and I nussed through one season of scarlet fever when sometimes there was five died in one house ; and if ma'sh rosemary didn ...
... Miss Emily . " Well , I must say , " said Miss Roxy , " it is a new idea to me , long as I've been nussin ' , and I nussed through one season of scarlet fever when sometimes there was five died in one house ; and if ma'sh rosemary didn ...
Page 100
... Miss Roxy ; " it won't be easy gettin ' roun ' him ; Cap'n bears a pretty steady hand when he sets out to drive . " " Well , " said Miss Emily , " I do think that bringin ' up children is the most awful responsibility , and I always won ...
... Miss Roxy ; " it won't be easy gettin ' roun ' him ; Cap'n bears a pretty steady hand when he sets out to drive . " " Well , " said Miss Emily , " I do think that bringin ' up children is the most awful responsibility , and I always won ...
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