John Halifax, GentlemanHarper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square., 1859 - 499 pages |
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... natural , that a boy like John Halifax - in whom from every word he said I detected a mind and breeding above his outward condition - should come of gentle rather than of boorish blood . 66 66 Then , perhaps , " I said , resuming the ...
... natural , that a boy like John Halifax - in whom from every word he said I detected a mind and breeding above his outward condition - should come of gentle rather than of boorish blood . 66 66 Then , perhaps , " I said , resuming the ...
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... natural deference of the younger to the elder , of the strong to the weak , than the duty paid by a serving - lad to his master's And this was how I best liked it to be . son . He guided me carefully among the tan - pits - those deep ...
... natural deference of the younger to the elder , of the strong to the weak , than the duty paid by a serving - lad to his master's And this was how I best liked it to be . son . He guided me carefully among the tan - pits - those deep ...
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... natural hill , or one of those old Roman or British remains , plentiful enough hereabouts , but it was always called the Mythe . Close below it , at the foot of a precipitous slope , ran the Severn , there broad and deep enough , and ...
... natural hill , or one of those old Roman or British remains , plentiful enough hereabouts , but it was always called the Mythe . Close below it , at the foot of a precipitous slope , ran the Severn , there broad and deep enough , and ...
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... naturally . So naturally , that I never seemed to think of him as any- thing but a boy , until this one June Sunday , when , as be fore stated , I myself became twenty years old . I was talking over that last fact , in a rather dreamy ...
... naturally . So naturally , that I never seemed to think of him as any- thing but a boy , until this one June Sunday , when , as be fore stated , I myself became twenty years old . I was talking over that last fact , in a rather dreamy ...
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... natural that it should have been a hard struggle was the only secret that I had kept from John . It had happened some months now , and was quite over , and gone , so that I could smile at his fun , and shake at him my " bewitching ...
... natural that it should have been a hard struggle was the only secret that I had kept from John . It had happened some months now , and was quite over , and gone , so that I could smile at his fun , and shake at him my " bewitching ...
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