Life ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 - 208 pages |
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... person would have done upon the like occasion , he ran over his acquaintance in his mind , speculating whether it were such or such a one , and dismissing the whole list of im- probabilities , before laying down the book he was read ...
... person would have done upon the like occasion , he ran over his acquaintance in his mind , speculating whether it were such or such a one , and dismissing the whole list of im- probabilities , before laying down the book he was read ...
Page 27
... person for whom he asked did not live there , he set his bristling lips hard together , and sighed heavily . " They told me , " he said , in a hopeless way , " that he lived on this street , and I've been to every other house . I'm very ...
... person for whom he asked did not live there , he set his bristling lips hard together , and sighed heavily . " They told me , " he said , in a hopeless way , " that he lived on this street , and I've been to every other house . I'm very ...
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... person in the neighborhood ; and they would go out together , and ask at some of the houses about . But the stranger must first take a glass of wine ; for he looked used up . The sailor awkwardly but civilly enough protested that he did ...
... person in the neighborhood ; and they would go out together , and ask at some of the houses about . But the stranger must first take a glass of wine ; for he looked used up . The sailor awkwardly but civilly enough protested that he did ...
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... person , to whom all things of every- day life presented themselves in periods more or less rounded , and capable of use as facts or illustrations , could not but rejoice in these new incidents , as dramat- ically fashioned as the rest ...
... person , to whom all things of every- day life presented themselves in periods more or less rounded , and capable of use as facts or illustrations , could not but rejoice in these new incidents , as dramat- ically fashioned as the rest ...
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... persons in his time had created greater solicitude among his Majesty's lieges within the " Weald . " He was rich , of course . The best house in the country - town is always the lawyer's , and it generally boasts a green door , stone ...
... persons in his time had created greater solicitude among his Majesty's lieges within the " Weald . " He was rich , of course . The best house in the country - town is always the lawyer's , and it generally boasts a green door , stone ...
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