The Home: Or, Life in Sweden. And Strife and PeaceG. Bell, 1892 - 518 pages |
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... hope , by degrees , to remove a certain ill - tempered expression . She is uncommonly industrious , silent and or- derly , and kind towards her younger sisters , although very much disposed to lecture them ; nor will she allow any oppor ...
... hope , by degrees , to remove a certain ill - tempered expression . She is uncommonly industrious , silent and or- derly , and kind towards her younger sisters , although very much disposed to lecture them ; nor will she allow any oppor ...
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... hope it will prove a really splendid fac - simile . See , then , a little , soft , round - about figure , which , amid laughter and merriment , rolls hither and thither lightly , and nimbly , with an ever - varying physiognomy , which ...
... hope it will prove a really splendid fac - simile . See , then , a little , soft , round - about figure , which , amid laughter and merriment , rolls hither and thither lightly , and nimbly , with an ever - varying physiognomy , which ...
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... hope for much good . The Candidate is warmly recommended to us by a friend of my husband , the excellent Bishop B .; yet , notwithstand- ing this , his actions at the University did not particularly re- dound to his honour . Through ...
... hope for much good . The Candidate is warmly recommended to us by a friend of my husband , the excellent Bishop B .; yet , notwithstand- ing this , his actions at the University did not particularly re- dound to his honour . Through ...
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... would willingly allow him a pound of sugar and coffee a day , if he only became , as I hope he may , a good friend and preceptor for the children . " Brigitta walked away quite provoked , and grumbling to herself THE CANDIDATE . 27.
... would willingly allow him a pound of sugar and coffee a day , if he only became , as I hope he may , a good friend and preceptor for the children . " Brigitta walked away quite provoked , and grumbling to herself THE CANDIDATE . 27.
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... thought she , and tore up the raspberry bushes , and new courage and new hope revived the while in her breast . If , thought she , she clambered only a little way higher , couid she not discover where her home 50 THE HOME .
... thought she , and tore up the raspberry bushes , and new courage and new hope revived the while in her breast . If , thought she , she clambered only a little way higher , couid she not discover where her home 50 THE HOME .
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