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... kind- ness could make me . I amused myself , at this time , by not- ing in my mind all that I could learn from other limbless folk , and from myself , as to the peculiar feelings which were noticed in regard to lost members . I found ...
... kind- ness could make me . I amused myself , at this time , by not- ing in my mind all that I could learn from other limbless folk , and from myself , as to the peculiar feelings which were noticed in regard to lost members . I found ...
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... kind enough , as usual , to oblige me with the loan of his wag- on , and two orderlies to lift my useless trunk . On the day following , I found my- " Well , " said I , " you ' re better off self , with my new comrade , in a house than ...
... kind enough , as usual , to oblige me with the loan of his wag- on , and two orderlies to lift my useless trunk . On the day following , I found my- " Well , " said I , " you ' re better off self , with my new comrade , in a house than ...
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... kind to a being who is uncertain of being enough himself to be conscientiously responsible . It is needless to add , that I am not a happy fraction of a man ; and that I am eager for the day when I shall rejoin the lost members of my ...
... kind to a being who is uncertain of being enough himself to be conscientiously responsible . It is needless to add , that I am not a happy fraction of a man ; and that I am eager for the day when I shall rejoin the lost members of my ...
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... kind . Then , too , his conscientious- ness stood in his way . Should he pre- sume to take her to his poor house , even if she would come ? No , no , he must not think of it ; he must work and wait , and defer hope . This hour so ...
... kind . Then , too , his conscientious- ness stood in his way . Should he pre- sume to take her to his poor house , even if she would come ? No , no , he must not think of it ; he must work and wait , and defer hope . This hour so ...
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... kind to her and considerate of her , how manly , how generous , how self - forgetful . And then she must tell how hard he had worked , and how saving he had been in order to give his children a better chance in the world than he had had ...
... kind to her and considerate of her , how manly , how generous , how self - forgetful . And then she must tell how hard he had worked , and how saving he had been in order to give his children a better chance in the world than he had had ...
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