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Page 12
... happy together . " And so Mary , who in those days was a pretty young married woman , felt herself rich and happy , - no duchess richer or happier . The two contentedly delved and toiled , and the little Naomi was their princess . The ...
... happy together . " And so Mary , who in those days was a pretty young married woman , felt herself rich and happy , - no duchess richer or happier . The two contentedly delved and toiled , and the little Naomi was their princess . The ...
Page 34
... a sheet ! Perhaps , happy young female reader , you don't know what that is , - most likely not ; for in these degenerate days the strait and narrow ways of self - denial , formerly thought so 34 THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND .
... a sheet ! Perhaps , happy young female reader , you don't know what that is , - most likely not ; for in these degenerate days the strait and narrow ways of self - denial , formerly thought so 34 THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND .
Page 36
... happy as human creature could be , with a keenness of happiness that children who have never been made to turn sheets of a bright afternoon can never realize . The sun was yet an hour high , as she saw , by the flash of her shrewd ...
... happy as human creature could be , with a keenness of happiness that children who have never been made to turn sheets of a bright afternoon can never realize . The sun was yet an hour high , as she saw , by the flash of her shrewd ...
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... happy age when sorrow can be easily effaced , and the efforts of the children called forth joyous smiles . When his playthings did not go to his liking , he showed sparkles of a fiery , irascible spirit . The little Mara seemed to ...
... happy age when sorrow can be easily effaced , and the efforts of the children called forth joyous smiles . When his playthings did not go to his liking , he showed sparkles of a fiery , irascible spirit . The little Mara seemed to ...
Page 115
... happy as the sea - gulls ; and little Moses now thinks , with glorious scorn , of you and your press - board , as of grim shadows of restraint and bondage that shall never darken his free life more . Both Miss Roxy and Mrs. Pennel were ...
... happy as the sea - gulls ; and little Moses now thinks , with glorious scorn , of you and your press - board , as of grim shadows of restraint and bondage that shall never darken his free life more . Both Miss Roxy and Mrs. Pennel were ...
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The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (Classic Reprint) Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe No preview available - 2015 |
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