Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, Volume 42W & R Chambers, 1865 |
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... gentleman . He was a restless traveller ; and as his companion with a low sigh relapsed into silence , he evinced his impatience by pulling his long gray moustaches , and drumming on the glass of the window with his powerful fingers ...
... gentleman . He was a restless traveller ; and as his companion with a low sigh relapsed into silence , he evinced his impatience by pulling his long gray moustaches , and drumming on the glass of the window with his powerful fingers ...
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... gentleman's adding what he pleases to his stature ( let his original height have been what it may ) by means of a shako and plume . Let him arm him- self cap - à - pie , and be furnished with the latest weapons of precision ; but why ...
... gentleman's adding what he pleases to his stature ( let his original height have been what it may ) by means of a shako and plume . Let him arm him- self cap - à - pie , and be furnished with the latest weapons of precision ; but why ...
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... gentleman gave him this morning . ' ' She is an angel , ' faltered the girl . Why did you not take the money , then ? ' I asked . ' You might have bought food for yourself up to heaven last Christmas ; ' and tears filled her eyes as she ...
... gentleman gave him this morning . ' ' She is an angel , ' faltered the girl . Why did you not take the money , then ? ' I asked . ' You might have bought food for yourself up to heaven last Christmas ; ' and tears filled her eyes as she ...
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... gentleman , I do assure you . ' This last sentence was addressed to myself , who was standing at the top of the steps in ques- tion , and a very embarrassing remark it was . I had not the least intention of speaking to the person ...
... gentleman , I do assure you . ' This last sentence was addressed to myself , who was standing at the top of the steps in ques- tion , and a very embarrassing remark it was . I had not the least intention of speaking to the person ...
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... gentleman to lend me fourpence , I was sure that I could never do that . I felt , to begin with , that I should scarcely be able to make myself heard in the turmoil , and that he would reiterate : ' What , ma'am ? ' and make repeat the ...
... gentleman to lend me fourpence , I was sure that I could never do that . I felt , to begin with , that I should scarcely be able to make myself heard in the turmoil , and that he would reiterate : ' What , ma'am ? ' and make repeat the ...
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