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... fashionable and becoming morning costume , the footman tapped at the door , and delivered a let- ter to the abigail , for his lady . 66 " Harrison , " exclaimed her ladyship , as I live , here is a letter from VOL . 1 . B dear my cousin ...
... fashionable and becoming morning costume , the footman tapped at the door , and delivered a let- ter to the abigail , for his lady . 66 " Harrison , " exclaimed her ladyship , as I live , here is a letter from VOL . 1 . B dear my cousin ...
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... fashionable wife in the world ; but she did not think be . fore that she was so blindly complying , as she well knew , with every other ser vant in the house , that nothing seemed to please her better than when she was thwarting her ...
... fashionable wife in the world ; but she did not think be . fore that she was so blindly complying , as she well knew , with every other ser vant in the house , that nothing seemed to please her better than when she was thwarting her ...
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... fashionable pair . T But that inconsistency which had ever marked the colonel's character , again caused him to relapse into his former little vexatious caprices , and perhaps we may call it jealousy , of his lady prefer ring any one ...
... fashionable pair . T But that inconsistency which had ever marked the colonel's character , again caused him to relapse into his former little vexatious caprices , and perhaps we may call it jealousy , of his lady prefer ring any one ...
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... fashionable slouch beaver on again , never to be taken off . At length the important time arrived that called on the ladies to make some change in their dress for the hour of din- D 5 ner , ner , when a few very intimate friends were ...
... fashionable slouch beaver on again , never to be taken off . At length the important time arrived that called on the ladies to make some change in their dress for the hour of din- D 5 ner , ner , when a few very intimate friends were ...
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... to think she was some independent chit , with whom she should not be able to take any kind of freedom ; and once , on her saying " Allow me , Miss Dorring- • ton , ton , this is now most fashionable , " she 66 PARENTS AND WIVES .
... to think she was some independent chit , with whom she should not be able to take any kind of freedom ; and once , on her saying " Allow me , Miss Dorring- • ton , ton , this is now most fashionable , " she 66 PARENTS AND WIVES .
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Parents and Wives: Or, Inconsistency and Mistakes: a Novel;, Volume 1 Green No preview available - 2017 |
Parents and Wives: Or, Inconsistency and Mistakes: a Novel;, Volume 1 Green No preview available - 2017 |
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