A Glimpse of the World, Volume 2Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863 - 537 pages |
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... a pen , whilst her face was so expressive of anything but happiness , that even Annette forgot her annoyance at the false stroke , and joined in B Juliet's laugh at her sister's despairing attitude , as she. Buhr. /. Grad. 'D ...
... a pen , whilst her face was so expressive of anything but happiness , that even Annette forgot her annoyance at the false stroke , and joined in B Juliet's laugh at her sister's despairing attitude , as she. Buhr. /. Grad. 'D ...
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... face . ' Who is in the drawing - room ? ' ' The Verneys ; at least Mrs. Verney and a niece . Mrs. Verney wants the niece to walk with you , only she is too shy to come into the school - room with so many strangers ; and you are just her ...
... face . ' Who is in the drawing - room ? ' ' The Verneys ; at least Mrs. Verney and a niece . Mrs. Verney wants the niece to walk with you , only she is too shy to come into the school - room with so many strangers ; and you are just her ...
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... face which , if the cause had been more important , might have called for sympathy . It was not annoyance , nor , at that moment , temper . It was a look of inward trouble- restlessness ; in an older person it might have por- tended a ...
... face which , if the cause had been more important , might have called for sympathy . It was not annoyance , nor , at that moment , temper . It was a look of inward trouble- restlessness ; in an older person it might have por- tended a ...
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... face . Myra had only a very moderate share of beauty by nature , and certainly at sixteen it had not been increased by the softening influences of education . ' My step - daughter and my own daughter - if they could only be reversed ...
... face . Myra had only a very moderate share of beauty by nature , and certainly at sixteen it had not been increased by the softening influences of education . ' My step - daughter and my own daughter - if they could only be reversed ...
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... face was concentrated . Without it the mouth might have been almost weakly benevo- lent , whilst the eyes were decidedly irascible . ' A quarter of an hour before your time , Patty , ' was his reply to the medicinal offer which had been ...
... face was concentrated . Without it the mouth might have been almost weakly benevo- lent , whilst the eyes were decidedly irascible . ' A quarter of an hour before your time , Patty , ' was his reply to the medicinal offer which had been ...
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