Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2Pub. for the Trade, 1823 - Great Britain |
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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 en ...
... 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 en ...
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... Alice Bridgenorth's ; but an exquisite form , though not as yet sufficiently rounded in the out- fines to produce the perfection of female beauty , was able to sustain and give grace even to this unbecoming dress . Her countenance ...
... Alice Bridgenorth's ; but an exquisite form , though not as yet sufficiently rounded in the out- fines to produce the perfection of female beauty , was able to sustain and give grace even to this unbecoming dress . Her countenance ...
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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 ine 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 ine 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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... Alice Bridgenorth ; « that which is un- pleasant , our selfish and stubborn will represents as impossible . I have no confidence in the plan you propose - no confidence in your resolution , and less than none in the protection of Debo ...
... Alice Bridgenorth ; « that which is un- pleasant , our selfish and stubborn will represents as impossible . I have no confidence in the plan you propose - no confidence in your resolution , and less than none in the protection of Debo ...
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