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... Alice Bridgenorth entered , at length , the parlour where her anxious lover had so long expected her , it was with a slow step , and a com- posed manner . Her dress was arranged with an accurate attention to form , which at once enhan ...
... Alice Bridgenorth entered , at length , the parlour where her anxious lover had so long expected her , it was with a slow step , and a com- posed manner . Her dress was arranged with an accurate attention to form , which at once enhan ...
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... Alice Bridgenorth's ; but an exquisite form , though not , as yet , sufficiently rounded in the outlines to produce the perfection of female beauty , was able to sustain and give grace even to this un- becoming dress . Her countenance ...
... Alice Bridgenorth's ; but an exquisite form , though not , as yet , sufficiently rounded in the outlines to produce the perfection of female beauty , was able to sustain and give grace even to this un- becoming dress . Her countenance ...
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... Alice , should prefer the recluse of the Black- Fort to all others with whom he had become ac- quainted in general society . His heart beat high as she came into the apart- ment , and it was almost without an attempt to speak that his ...
... Alice , should prefer the recluse of the Black- Fort to all others with whom he had become ac- quainted in general society . His heart beat high as she came into the apart- ment , and it was almost without an attempt to speak that his ...
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... Alice , I could shew my regard — my respect - my devoted tenderness- the danger would be dearer to me than ever was pleasure . " " You have said such things often , " said Alice , " and they are such as I ought not to hear , and do not ...
... Alice , I could shew my regard — my respect - my devoted tenderness- the danger would be dearer to me than ever was pleasure . " " You have said such things often , " said Alice , " and they are such as I ought not to hear , and do not ...
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... Alice ? till when ? -impose on me any length of absence which your severity can inflict , short of a final separation - Say , be- gone for years , but return when these years are over ; and , slow and wearily as they must pass away ...
... Alice ? till when ? -impose on me any length of absence which your severity can inflict , short of a final separation - Say , be- gone for years , but return when these years are over ; and , slow and wearily as they must pass away ...
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