John Halifax, GentlemanHarper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square., 1859 - 499 pages |
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... woman ( Sally Watkins , once my nurse ) , was going to say , but she changed her mind . My father and I both glanced round , surprised at her unusual reticence of epithets ; but when the lad addressed turned , fixed his eyes on each of ...
... woman ( Sally Watkins , once my nurse ) , was going to say , but she changed her mind . My father and I both glanced round , surprised at her unusual reticence of epithets ; but when the lad addressed turned , fixed his eyes on each of ...
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... woman's— ~ tenderer than any woman's I ever was used to hear . I put my arms round his neck ; he lifted me safely and carefully , and set me at my own door . Then , with another good- bye , he again turned to go . I My heart cried after ...
... woman's— ~ tenderer than any woman's I ever was used to hear . I put my arms round his neck ; he lifted me safely and carefully , and set me at my own door . Then , with another good- bye , he again turned to go . I My heart cried after ...
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... woman's evident annoy- ance , until the driver , turning , lifted his hat to her with such a merry , frank , pleasant smile . Surely , I knew that smile , and the well - set head with its light curly hair . Also , alas ! I knew ૨૪ ...
... woman's evident annoy- ance , until the driver , turning , lifted his hat to her with such a merry , frank , pleasant smile . Surely , I knew that smile , and the well - set head with its light curly hair . Also , alas ! I knew ૨૪ ...
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... woman or man , that I ever knew . " I'm glad you're better , " he said , and said no more . But one look of his expressed as much as half - a - dozen sym- pathetic sentences of other people . " And how have you been , John ? How do you ...
... woman or man , that I ever knew . " I'm glad you're better , " he said , and said no more . But one look of his expressed as much as half - a - dozen sym- pathetic sentences of other people . " And how have you been , John ? How do you ...
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... woman did say , I have not the slightest recollection . I only remember that it did not frighten and grieve me as such attacks used to do ; that , in her own ver- nacular , it all " went in at one ear , and out at t'other ; " that I ...
... woman did say , I have not the slightest recollection . I only remember that it did not frighten and grieve me as such attacks used to do ; that , in her own ver- nacular , it all " went in at one ear , and out at t'other ; " that I ...
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