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... sympathising , in- deed , looking on with a smiling face , or a bleeding heart , but yet , as I said before , a subordinate personage . Perhaps I am thence better qualified to record the scenes in which I have 4 VIVIA .
... sympathising , in- deed , looking on with a smiling face , or a bleeding heart , but yet , as I said before , a subordinate personage . Perhaps I am thence better qualified to record the scenes in which I have 4 VIVIA .
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Georgiana Anne Dalrymple. better qualified to record the scenes in which I have only been an accessory . The old proverb concerning " lookers - on " is full of truth , as all old proverbs are . And those whose hearts are very full of ...
Georgiana Anne Dalrymple. better qualified to record the scenes in which I have only been an accessory . The old proverb concerning " lookers - on " is full of truth , as all old proverbs are . And those whose hearts are very full of ...
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... scene , the eternal desolation above and around , and in the foreground , the broken carriage , the dying horses , and one figure never to be forgotten , the fair hair fallen back from the death - like brow , and the whole form prone in ...
... scene , the eternal desolation above and around , and in the foreground , the broken carriage , the dying horses , and one figure never to be forgotten , the fair hair fallen back from the death - like brow , and the whole form prone in ...
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... scene of him I could have loved so deeply , present in spirit as much as I could have been , had my bodily eyes beheld ... scenes of suffering and distress . How I longed , when , after a time of in- sensibility , memory returned to me ...
... scene of him I could have loved so deeply , present in spirit as much as I could have been , had my bodily eyes beheld ... scenes of suffering and distress . How I longed , when , after a time of in- sensibility , memory returned to me ...
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... scene , now bathed in dew , and glistening in the moon - beams , the eyes of Vivia St Aubyn wandered anxiously ; but she marked not one feature of its familiar beauty . The two points at which the road leading to the castle could be ...
... scene , now bathed in dew , and glistening in the moon - beams , the eyes of Vivia St Aubyn wandered anxiously ; but she marked not one feature of its familiar beauty . The two points at which the road leading to the castle could be ...
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Page 87 - Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
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