Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 6Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1873 - American literature |
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... face . When a man who has known you a few days avers that his greatest happiness would be to render him - ceiver . " self useful to you , it is simply his fashion of saying , How do you do ? If in a drawing - room a Gaul is asked his ...
... face . When a man who has known you a few days avers that his greatest happiness would be to render him - ceiver . " self useful to you , it is simply his fashion of saying , How do you do ? If in a drawing - room a Gaul is asked his ...
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... face bronzed and bearded , and a low voice uttering words half pleading , half resentful . There was a moment's pause , then the voice questioned , with a dash of bitterness- " Shall I go , Maggie ? " " Just as you please , Mr. Clifford ...
... face bronzed and bearded , and a low voice uttering words half pleading , half resentful . There was a moment's pause , then the voice questioned , with a dash of bitterness- " Shall I go , Maggie ? " " Just as you please , Mr. Clifford ...
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... faces was irresistible . Carlie protested stoutly when the strong hand began to de- molish her work ; but Tom ... face bent so steadily over that piece of darn- ing ; watched the white fingers busy with their task , and remarked ...
... faces was irresistible . Carlie protested stoutly when the strong hand began to de- molish her work ; but Tom ... face bent so steadily over that piece of darn- ing ; watched the white fingers busy with their task , and remarked ...
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... face and received her greeting without being pleased with her . She was dressed plainly but with great neatness ; and everything in her look and manner re- vealed the well - bred woman . The whole expression of her personality was one ...
... face and received her greeting without being pleased with her . She was dressed plainly but with great neatness ; and everything in her look and manner re- vealed the well - bred woman . The whole expression of her personality was one ...
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... face , grasped and fairly ground my hand within his own . He made the most distant of bows to the strange lady at my side , who looked as ghost- like at the instant as himself . The thought instantaneously crossed my mind that he had ...
... face , grasped and fairly ground my hand within his own . He made the most distant of bows to the strange lady at my side , who looked as ghost- like at the instant as himself . The thought instantaneously crossed my mind that he had ...
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