My Awkward Cousin, Or, Caroline's Visit to Her Great-aunt's Poultry YardAmerican Sunday-School Union, 1848 - 107 pages |
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... parents , ( which would be six weeks at least , ) I could scarcely contain myself . I acknowledged to my mother that I could not bear either of them . " Put me in a boarding - school , put me in a convent , anywhere you please , but not ...
... parents , ( which would be six weeks at least , ) I could scarcely contain myself . I acknowledged to my mother that I could not bear either of them . " Put me in a boarding - school , put me in a convent , anywhere you please , but not ...
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... parents can educate them . Your mother and I have consecrated ourselves to that care , and you have been ac- customed , at an early age , not to have companions around you , but to be con- tented with being alone . Would it be well for ...
... parents can educate them . Your mother and I have consecrated ourselves to that care , and you have been ac- customed , at an early age , not to have companions around you , but to be con- tented with being alone . Would it be well for ...
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... parents were as much af- fected as myself , as they kissed me for the last time , and almost as soon as they left me I heard the noise of the carriage wheels as they drove away . I ran to the window all in tears ; but the carriage had ...
... parents were as much af- fected as myself , as they kissed me for the last time , and almost as soon as they left me I heard the noise of the carriage wheels as they drove away . I ran to the window all in tears ; but the carriage had ...
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... I dropped on my knees , and prayed as I never had before . My soul seemed to rise in gratitude to God . I admired him in his greatness and his goodness , and the thought that my parents en- joyed at the 14 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
... I dropped on my knees , and prayed as I never had before . My soul seemed to rise in gratitude to God . I admired him in his greatness and his goodness , and the thought that my parents en- joyed at the 14 MY AWKWARD COUSIN .
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and the thought that my parents en- joyed at the same time the sight of similar fields , that they breathed with delight as I did the morning air , that they prayed for their daughter at the same time that their daughter prayed for them ...
and the thought that my parents en- joyed at the same time the sight of similar fields , that they breathed with delight as I did the morning air , that they prayed for their daughter at the same time that their daughter prayed for them ...
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