John Halifax, GentlemanHarper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square., 1859 - 499 pages |
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... Society ; this having been the last request of my mother , rigidly observed by her husband . The more so , people said , as while she lived they had not been quite happy together . But whatever he was to her , 32 JOHN HALIFAX .
... Society ; this having been the last request of my mother , rigidly observed by her husband . The more so , people said , as while she lived they had not been quite happy together . But whatever he was to her , 32 JOHN HALIFAX .
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... happy as a king . Only look ou of the window . " Ay , the window was the grand advantage ; out of it one could crawl on to the roof , and from the roof was the finest view in all Norton Bury . On one side , the town , the Abbey , and ...
... happy as a king . Only look ou of the window . " Ay , the window was the grand advantage ; out of it one could crawl on to the roof , and from the roof was the finest view in all Norton Bury . On one side , the town , the Abbey , and ...
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... happy . You can't think how fine this is from my window ; I have watched it for a week . Every morning the water seems to have made itself a fresh channel . Look at that one , by the willow - tree - how savagely it pours ! " " Oh , we ...
... happy . You can't think how fine this is from my window ; I have watched it for a week . Every morning the water seems to have made itself a fresh channel . Look at that one , by the willow - tree - how savagely it pours ! " " Oh , we ...
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... happy . We reached the Mythe . " David , " I said ( I had got into a habit of calling him " David ; " and now he had read a certain history in that Book , I supposed he had guessed why , for he liked the name ) , " I don't think I can ...
... happy . We reached the Mythe . " David , " I said ( I had got into a habit of calling him " David ; " and now he had read a certain history in that Book , I supposed he had guessed why , for he liked the name ) , " I don't think I can ...
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... happy as a poor man with a bag of gold . " Is there nothing thou canst think of Phineas , that would pleasure the lad ? " said my father , after we had been talk- ing some time - though not about John . I had thought of something ...
... happy as a poor man with a bag of gold . " Is there nothing thou canst think of Phineas , that would pleasure the lad ? " said my father , after we had been talk- ing some time - though not about John . I had thought of something ...
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