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Page 6
... hear , and do not desire to hear . I have no tasks to impose on you - no enemies to be destroyed - no need or desire of protection - no wish , Heaven knows , to expose you to danger - It is your visits here alone to which danger ...
... hear , and do not desire to hear . I have no tasks to impose on you - no enemies to be destroyed - no need or desire of protection - no wish , Heaven knows , to expose you to danger - It is your visits here alone to which danger ...
Page 8
... Hear me , unpitying girl , " said Peveril , ❝hear me , and you shall see how devoted I am to obedience , in all that I can do to oblige you . You say you were happy when we spoke not on such topics - well - at all expence of my own ...
... Hear me , unpitying girl , " said Peveril , ❝hear me , and you shall see how devoted I am to obedience , in all that I can do to oblige you . You say you were happy when we spoke not on such topics - well - at all expence of my own ...
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... hear if I have feared to plead my cause with him . " " Alas ! " answered Alice , " you well know my uncertainty as to my dear father's residence . How often has it been my earnest request to him that 12 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .
... hear if I have feared to plead my cause with him . " " Alas ! " answered Alice , " you well know my uncertainty as to my dear father's residence . How often has it been my earnest request to him that 12 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .
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... hear to what conclu- sion Major Bridgenorth was finally to arrive , did not care to interrupt . Accordingly , in a few minutes the latter proceeded . " These things , ” he said , " I recal not in bitterness , so far as they are personal ...
... hear to what conclu- sion Major Bridgenorth was finally to arrive , did not care to interrupt . Accordingly , in a few minutes the latter proceeded . " These things , ” he said , " I recal not in bitterness , so far as they are personal ...
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... pressed his suit , he was too much trained in ideas of the importance of his family , and in the better habit of respect for his parents , to hear , without displeasure , some part of Bridgenorth's discourse . " PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 25.
... pressed his suit , he was too much trained in ideas of the importance of his family , and in the better habit of respect for his parents , to hear , without displeasure , some part of Bridgenorth's discourse . " PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 25.
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