The Torchlight: Or, Through the WoodDerby & Jackson, 1856 - 446 pages |
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... turning into unmeaning smirks ; her use- ful attentions into boring visits ; while her honeyed flattery began to work - the sour to rise on the sweets that rolled off her saccharine tongue . That she had begun to ferment , was evident ...
... turning into unmeaning smirks ; her use- ful attentions into boring visits ; while her honeyed flattery began to work - the sour to rise on the sweets that rolled off her saccharine tongue . That she had begun to ferment , was evident ...
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... turned from this blaze of bor- rowed light , and pressed forward in an humbler sphere , with her energy and talent , she had done well ; but there was the look back ! Like Lot's wife , she could not turn to a pillar of salt , or she had ...
... turned from this blaze of bor- rowed light , and pressed forward in an humbler sphere , with her energy and talent , she had done well ; but there was the look back ! Like Lot's wife , she could not turn to a pillar of salt , or she had ...
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... turned to jewelled drops , and gathered in a crown on the head of her 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 ...
... turned to jewelled drops , and gathered in a crown on the head of her 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 ...
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... afflicted Elinor , increasing to vehement demonstration her anger . Turning towards her bland parent , who held the gift , she exclaimed , with an energetic motion of her hand and THROUGH THE WOOD . 19 CHAPTER II. ...
... afflicted Elinor , increasing to vehement demonstration her anger . Turning towards her bland parent , who held the gift , she exclaimed , with an energetic motion of her hand and THROUGH THE WOOD . 19 CHAPTER II. ...
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... turned from her own person , upon that of her parent , around whose sunken cheeks fell lace , old and well - darned , about whose shrunken form folded the scant breadths of a deceased relative's gown , and whose thin 24 THE TORCHLIGHT ...
... turned from her own person , upon that of her parent , around whose sunken cheeks fell lace , old and well - darned , about whose shrunken form folded the scant breadths of a deceased relative's gown , and whose thin 24 THE TORCHLIGHT ...
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