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... many cases , intimate the wish to appear advantageous- ly at such an interview , yet a ceremonious ar- rangement of attire is very much allied with for- mality , and a preconceived determination to treat a lover PEVERIL OF THE PEAK. ...
... many cases , intimate the wish to appear advantageous- ly at such an interview , yet a ceremonious ar- rangement of attire is very much allied with for- mality , and a preconceived determination to treat a lover PEVERIL OF THE PEAK. ...
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... wish , Heaven knows , to expose you to danger - It is your visits here alone to which danger attaches . You have but to rule your own wilful temper - to turn your thoughts and your cares elsewhere , and I can have nothing to ask ...
... wish , Heaven knows , to expose you to danger - It is your visits here alone to which danger attaches . You have but to rule your own wilful temper - to turn your thoughts and your cares elsewhere , and I can have nothing to ask ...
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... wishes you have lately expressed , we must be strangers ; -and could you renounce them even on this moment , it were better that we should part for a long time ; and , for Hea- ven's sake , let it be as soon as possible - perhaps it is ...
... wishes you have lately expressed , we must be strangers ; -and could you renounce them even on this moment , it were better that we should part for a long time ; and , for Hea- ven's sake , let it be as soon as possible - perhaps it is ...
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... wish- ing you well - very well - why should you urge me to say or do what would lessen me in my own eyes ? to own affection for one from whom fate has separated me for ever ? It is ungenerous -it is cruel - it is seeking a momentary and ...
... wish- ing you well - very well - why should you urge me to say or do what would lessen me in my own eyes ? to own affection for one from whom fate has separated me for ever ? It is ungenerous -it is cruel - it is seeking a momentary and ...
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... wishes ? ” Julian , in reply , could only remark , " That these injuries had been of long standing — that they had been done in heat of times , and heat of temper , and that Master Bridgenorth , in chris- tian kindness , should not ...
... wishes ? ” Julian , in reply , could only remark , " That these injuries had been of long standing — that they had been done in heat of times , and heat of temper , and that Master Bridgenorth , in chris- tian kindness , should not ...
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