Life ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 - 208 pages |
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Page 13
... wife . The contrast of his small , swarthy , weather - beaten , keen , worldly face to hers , pale , subdued , and beautiful , was something wonderful . Rab looked on concerned and puzzled , but ready for anything that might turn up ...
... wife . The contrast of his small , swarthy , weather - beaten , keen , worldly face to hers , pale , subdued , and beautiful , was something wonderful . Rab looked on concerned and puzzled , but ready for anything that might turn up ...
Page 23
... wife in his arms , laid her in the blankets , and happed her carefully and firmly up , leaving the face uncovered ; and then lift- ing her , he nodded again sharply to me , and , with a re- solved but utterly miserable face , strode ...
... wife in his arms , laid her in the blankets , and happed her carefully and firmly up , leaving the face uncovered ; and then lift- ing her , he nodded again sharply to me , and , with a re- solved but utterly miserable face , strode ...
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... wife with his neighbors mourning , Rab inspecting the solemnity from a distance . It was snow , and that black , ragged hole would look strange in the midst of the swelling , spotless cushion of white . James looked after everything ...
... wife with his neighbors mourning , Rab inspecting the solemnity from a distance . It was snow , and that black , ragged hole would look strange in the midst of the swelling , spotless cushion of white . James looked after everything ...
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... wife had been dead a year and a half , and the baby I'd never seen , with her ; and one of my boys was dead ; and he did n't know where the rest of the children was , but he ' d heard two of the little ones was with a family in the city ...
... wife had been dead a year and a half , and the baby I'd never seen , with her ; and one of my boys was dead ; and he did n't know where the rest of the children was , but he ' d heard two of the little ones was with a family in the city ...
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... wife had died , with her babe , and that his children were scattered , none knew where . As the contributor dwelt pityingly upon these things , but at the same time estimated their æsthetic value one by one , he drew near the head of ...
... wife had died , with her babe , and that his children were scattered , none knew where . As the contributor dwelt pityingly upon these things , but at the same time estimated their æsthetic value one by one , he drew near the head of ...
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