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Page 17
... person to whom it was writ- ten . It affords another instance of the old proverb that " faint heart never won fair lady , " for the note of despair is even more evident than the pitch of passion . Its cold reserve , however , but ill ...
... person to whom it was writ- ten . It affords another instance of the old proverb that " faint heart never won fair lady , " for the note of despair is even more evident than the pitch of passion . Its cold reserve , however , but ill ...
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... person , and this red - haired man was very tall . His shoes were tied with rope , and his pink , frost - bitten wrists shone below the frayed sleeves of the glossy coat . " Another drinking man , I suppose , " thought Sister Margaret ...
... person , and this red - haired man was very tall . His shoes were tied with rope , and his pink , frost - bitten wrists shone below the frayed sleeves of the glossy coat . " Another drinking man , I suppose , " thought Sister Margaret ...
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... person who enters the great apartment for the first time , at the dinner - hour , with a feeling of awe , if he has had the good fortune to do so himself in his youth and before his ideals were shat- tered . The writer distinctly ...
... person who enters the great apartment for the first time , at the dinner - hour , with a feeling of awe , if he has had the good fortune to do so himself in his youth and before his ideals were shat- tered . The writer distinctly ...
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... person , " said an ex- cellent matron to the writer . " I like to go . But the judge don't care for it . He says to me , ' You do the social , and I'll do the busi- ness . ' So he goes out with his friends , and I always have some ...
... person , " said an ex- cellent matron to the writer . " I like to go . But the judge don't care for it . He says to me , ' You do the social , and I'll do the busi- ness . ' So he goes out with his friends , and I always have some ...
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... person to manage , as I am told by this same informant , is the wife of a senator who arrives at Washing- ton with ... persons ; but this is as it must be , and as it ought to be , at the capital of a democracy . It is rather the fashion ...
... person to manage , as I am told by this same informant , is the wife of a senator who arrives at Washing- ton with ... persons ; but this is as it must be , and as it ought to be , at the capital of a democracy . It is rather the fashion ...
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