The Torchlight: Or, Through the WoodDerby & Jackson, 1856 - 446 pages |
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... CHILD . " NEW YORK : DERBY & JACKSON , 119 NASSAU ST . CINCINNATI : -H . W. DERBY & CO . 1856 . W THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 976614A ASTOR , LINOX AND THE TORCHLIGHT : AUTHOR OF "ISORA'S CHILD." ...
... CHILD . " NEW YORK : DERBY & JACKSON , 119 NASSAU ST . CINCINNATI : -H . W. DERBY & CO . 1856 . W THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 976614A ASTOR , LINOX AND THE TORCHLIGHT : AUTHOR OF "ISORA'S CHILD." ...
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... child . This was but a vision , yet a bright one to the victim of pride and poverty , whose slavish dependence had cankered her heart , and made humiliating her widowed life . It was a sweet morsel to roll under her tongue , that for ...
... child . This was but a vision , yet a bright one to the victim of pride and poverty , whose slavish dependence had cankered her heart , and made humiliating her widowed life . It was a sweet morsel to roll under her tongue , that for ...
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... child . Contemptuously she laughed at Elinor's liking for Hugh , wincing and squeezing her old ring at his allusion ... child's welfare , though she paved the way to it by a step so agitating . And before he left the fond parent ...
... child . Contemptuously she laughed at Elinor's liking for Hugh , wincing and squeezing her old ring at his allusion ... child's welfare , though she paved the way to it by a step so agitating . And before he left the fond parent ...
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... child ! she dotes on children . " " She must have known I needed but this encourage- ment . " " And you have long thought of her ? " " Nothing but the intelligence you have imparted , could have given me courage to make proposals of ...
... child ! she dotes on children . " " She must have known I needed but this encourage- ment . " " And you have long thought of her ? " " Nothing but the intelligence you have imparted , could have given me courage to make proposals of ...
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... child's devotion and services , that I might be near you ? " Elinor hid her eyes , from which gushed passionate tears . She would not be soothed - she would not explain or be comforted . Hugh left her , first bending over her head ...
... child's devotion and services , that I might be near you ? " Elinor hid her eyes , from which gushed passionate tears . She would not be soothed - she would not explain or be comforted . Hugh left her , first bending over her head ...
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