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Page 17
... wife's order . Seeing this , and hearing this , Hobert , as we said , stood still and trembled , and could only ask , by a little pressure of the hand he held , what was to be said or done . Jenny did not hesitate a moment . " I ...
... wife's order . Seeing this , and hearing this , Hobert , as we said , stood still and trembled , and could only ask , by a little pressure of the hand he held , what was to be said or done . Jenny did not hesitate a moment . " I ...
Page 20
... wife ! Sickness , perhaps , — certainly the lonesome nights and days of a home remote from neighbors , and the dreariness and hardship insepa- rable from the working out of better fortunes . But all these things , even though they ...
... wife ! Sickness , perhaps , — certainly the lonesome nights and days of a home remote from neighbors , and the dreariness and hardship insepa- rable from the working out of better fortunes . But all these things , even though they ...
Page 37
... wife , the daughter who thereafter assumed her mother's place in the household wrote me frequent accounts of her fa- ther's grief and loneliness , enclosing manuscript copies of the poems in which he expressed his sorrow . These poems ...
... wife , the daughter who thereafter assumed her mother's place in the household wrote me frequent accounts of her fa- ther's grief and loneliness , enclosing manuscript copies of the poems in which he expressed his sorrow . These poems ...
Page 95
... wife . But the cry- ing of banns in a single parish church is a waste of the people's time and the parson's breath . And so it proved in Griffith Gaunt's case . The Rev. William Wentworth published , in the usual recitative , the banns ...
... wife . But the cry- ing of banns in a single parish church is a waste of the people's time and the parson's breath . And so it proved in Griffith Gaunt's case . The Rev. William Wentworth published , in the usual recitative , the banns ...
Page 96
... wife , smiling and radiant at his coming , and always neat ; for , said she , " Shall I don my bravery for strangers , and not for my Thomas , that is the best ? of company They used to go to church , and come back together , hand in ...
... wife , smiling and radiant at his coming , and always neat ; for , said she , " Shall I don my bravery for strangers , and not for my Thomas , that is the best ? of company They used to go to church , and come back together , hand in ...
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