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... mother's cottage . When the little figure had vanished in the darkness , the reddleman returned , resumed his seat by the fire , and proceeded to darn again . CHAPTER IX . LOVE LEADS A SHREWD MAN INTO STRATEGY . REDDLEMEN of the old ...
... mother's cottage . When the little figure had vanished in the darkness , the reddleman returned , resumed his seat by the fire , and proceeded to darn again . CHAPTER IX . LOVE LEADS A SHREWD MAN INTO STRATEGY . REDDLEMEN of the old ...
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A London Magazine. lated threat of Wessex mothers for many generations . He was successfully supplanted for a while , at the beginning of the present century , by Bonaparte ; but as process of time rendered the latter personage stale and ...
A London Magazine. lated threat of Wessex mothers for many generations . He was successfully supplanted for a while , at the beginning of the present century , by Bonaparte ; but as process of time rendered the latter personage stale and ...
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... mother . He is a fine fellow by this time , it seems . I suppose you remember him . ' ' I never saw him in my life . ' Ah ! true ; he left before you came here . I well remember him as a promising boy . ' 6 Where has he been living all ...
... mother . He is a fine fellow by this time , it seems . I suppose you remember him . ' ' I never saw him in my life . ' Ah ! true ; he left before you came here . I well remember him as a promising boy . ' 6 Where has he been living all ...
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... mother ; thus upon her return her salons were as brilliant and as magnificent as ever . But society had undergone another metamorphosis , and the réunions under Louis XVIII . scarcely more resembled those of the Directory and the Empire ...
... mother ; thus upon her return her salons were as brilliant and as magnificent as ever . But society had undergone another metamorphosis , and the réunions under Louis XVIII . scarcely more resembled those of the Directory and the Empire ...
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... Mother ! ' and repeated it twice . Well , that's no use . Mother's battery is out of order , too . Can't raise anybody downstairs , -that is plain . ' He sat down at a rosewood desk , leaned his chin on the left- hand edge of it , and ...
... Mother ! ' and repeated it twice . Well , that's no use . Mother's battery is out of order , too . Can't raise anybody downstairs , -that is plain . ' He sat down at a rosewood desk , leaned his chin on the left- hand edge of it , and ...
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