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... parlour , where the stiff , high - backed chairs eyed one another in opposite rows across the wide oaken floor , shiny and hard as marble , and slippery as glass . Except the table , the side- board , and the cuckoo clock , there was no ...
... parlour , where the stiff , high - backed chairs eyed one another in opposite rows across the wide oaken floor , shiny and hard as marble , and slippery as glass . Except the table , the side- board , and the cuckoo clock , there was no ...
Page 11
... No ro- mantic antecedents ever turned up : his lineage remained un- investigated , and his pedigree began and ended with his own honest name - John Halifax . Jael kept coming in and out of the parlour on JOHN HALIFAX . 11.
... No ro- mantic antecedents ever turned up : his lineage remained un- investigated , and his pedigree began and ended with his own honest name - John Halifax . Jael kept coming in and out of the parlour on JOHN HALIFAX . 11.
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. Jael kept coming in and out of the parlour on divers ex- cuses , eyeing very suspiciously John Halifax and me ; especially when she heard me laughing — a rare and notable fact -for mirth was not the fashion in ...
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. Jael kept coming in and out of the parlour on divers ex- cuses , eyeing very suspiciously John Halifax and me ; especially when she heard me laughing — a rare and notable fact -for mirth was not the fashion in ...
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... parlour , and out of the parlour into the garden ; Jael scolding , my father roughly encouraging . My poor father ! he always had the belief that people need not be ill unless they chose , and that I could do a great deal if I would . I ...
... parlour , and out of the parlour into the garden ; Jael scolding , my father roughly encouraging . My poor father ! he always had the belief that people need not be ill unless they chose , and that I could do a great deal if I would . I ...
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... parlour windows . " " I don't drive the cart now , " was all he replied . " Not drive the cart ? " I asked , eagerly , when Jael had disappeared , for I was afraid some ill chance had happened . " Only , that this winter I've managed to ...
... parlour windows . " " I don't drive the cart now , " was all he replied . " Not drive the cart ? " I asked , eagerly , when Jael had disappeared , for I was afraid some ill chance had happened . " Only , that this winter I've managed to ...
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