Life ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 - 208 pages |
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... in her breest , some kind o ' an income we ' re thinkin ' . " - By this time I saw the woman's face ; she was sitting on a sack filled with straw , her husband's plaid round her , and his big - coat , with its 12 LITTLE CLASSICS .
... in her breest , some kind o ' an income we ' re thinkin ' . " - By this time I saw the woman's face ; she was sitting on a sack filled with straw , her husband's plaid round her , and his big - coat , with its 12 LITTLE CLASSICS .
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... face , — pale , serious , lonely , delicate , sweet , without being at all what we call fine . She looked sixty , and had on a mutch , white as snow , with its black ribbon , her silvery , smooth hair setting off her dark gray eyes ...
... face , — pale , serious , lonely , delicate , sweet , without being at all what we call fine . She looked sixty , and had on a mutch , white as snow , with its black ribbon , her silvery , smooth hair setting off her dark gray eyes ...
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... face with its gray , lucid , reasonable eyes , and its sweet resolved mouth , express the full measure of suffering overcome . Why was that gentle , modest , sweet woman , clean and lova- ble , condemned by God to bear such a burden ? I ...
... face with its gray , lucid , reasonable eyes , and its sweet resolved mouth , express the full measure of suffering overcome . Why was that gentle , modest , sweet woman , clean and lova- ble , condemned by God to bear such a burden ? I ...
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... face showed its pain , but was still and silent . Rab's soul was working within him ; he saw that something strange was going on , - blood flowing from his mistress , and she suffering ; his ragged ear was up and importu- nate ; he ...
... face showed its pain , but was still and silent . Rab's soul was working within him ; he saw that something strange was going on , - blood flowing from his mistress , and she suffering ; his ragged ear was up and importu- nate ; he ...
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... faces . dressed her , and spoke to her in his own short , kind way , pitying her through his eyes , Rab and James outside the circle , Rab being now reconciled , and even cordial , and having made up his mind that as yet nobody re ...
... faces . dressed her , and spoke to her in his own short , kind way , pitying her through his eyes , Rab and James outside the circle , Rab being now reconciled , and even cordial , and having made up his mind that as yet nobody re ...
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