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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... 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 ; " where- upon the questioner turned suddenly ...
... 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 ; " where- upon the questioner turned suddenly ...
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... words which would express his contempt for the booby before him . As for myself , I had As for myself , I had been so taken off my guard , so shamed with the thought that he and his confrères regard- ed me as belonging to their number ...
... words which would express his contempt for the booby before him . As for myself , I had As for myself , I had been so taken off my guard , so shamed with the thought that he and his confrères regard- ed me as belonging to their number ...
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... words to myself , and , once more addressing Mullens , said : " When a childless woman adopts a relative as a member of her family , and makes him her own , and a sharer in her love and fortune , it may be well or ill for him , but it ...
... words to myself , and , once more addressing Mullens , said : " When a childless woman adopts a relative as a member of her family , and makes him her own , and a sharer in her love and fortune , it may be well or ill for him , but it ...
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... words ; groups in marble wreathed their snowy arms against a background of flowering greenery ; gilded chandeliers ... word would shatter the beauti- ful world around me into fragments , or scorch it into ashes . I woke the next morning ...
... words ; groups in marble wreathed their snowy arms against a background of flowering greenery ; gilded chandeliers ... word would shatter the beauti- ful world around me into fragments , or scorch it into ashes . I woke the next morning ...
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... words where a new coinage of them is simply superfluous . In parts it also borders on quaintness , as if he had caught the habit of Sir Thomas More or Roger Bacon . His powers of composition are most con- spicuous in his scenic ...
... words where a new coinage of them is simply superfluous . In parts it also borders on quaintness , as if he had caught the habit of Sir Thomas More or Roger Bacon . His powers of composition are most con- spicuous in his scenic ...
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