The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 23Atlantic Monthly Company, 1869 - American essays |
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... hours in two . How much better that than sulking , discontented , for a whole hour , in the corner of a farmer's kitchen ! Miss Tryphosa and her brother had the feeling , I suppose , which sensible people have about half the days of ...
... hours in two . How much better that than sulking , discontented , for a whole hour , in the corner of a farmer's kitchen ! Miss Tryphosa and her brother had the feeling , I suppose , which sensible people have about half the days of ...
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... hours . The saving of time marks the progress of the country in everything else , a progress from a hundred miles a day to thirty miles an hour , from an unsettled wilderness to a region rich , populous , and highly civilized . But it ...
... hours . The saving of time marks the progress of the country in everything else , a progress from a hundred miles a day to thirty miles an hour , from an unsettled wilderness to a region rich , populous , and highly civilized . But it ...
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... hour of such plead- ing , anything like ill - will or pride or exasperating memories should have been allowed a place ! A softening light seemed to fall on the wondering faces , - mild evidence of the softening influ- ence with which ...
... hour of such plead- ing , anything like ill - will or pride or exasperating memories should have been allowed a place ! A softening light seemed to fall on the wondering faces , - mild evidence of the softening influ- ence with which ...
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Autobiography of a Shaker I II | 20 |
Hamlets of the Stage The I | 40 |
After Election J G Whittier | 50 |
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