The Home: Or, Life in Sweden. And Strife and PeaceG. Bell, 1892 - 518 pages |
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... looked down upon them from high windows , and yet rejoiced that the sun streamed into the most lowly huts just as pleasantly as into our large saloons - everything seemed to us so well arranged . Life then , Cecilia , was joyful and ...
... looked down upon them from high windows , and yet rejoiced that the sun streamed into the most lowly huts just as pleasantly as into our large saloons - everything seemed to us so well arranged . Life then , Cecilia , was joyful and ...
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... looked at himself in the glass , and arranged his curls . " Whom have we here ? " thought Elise , with secret anxiety . " He is a fop - a perfect fop ! How in all the world could Bishop B. select him as teacher for my poor little ...
... looked at himself in the glass , and arranged his curls . " Whom have we here ? " thought Elise , with secret anxiety . " He is a fop - a perfect fop ! How in all the world could Bishop B. select him as teacher for my poor little ...
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... looked out a new piece of dark silk from her drawer ( Louise was a hoarder by nature ) , possessed herself secretly of the Candidate's hat , and with some little help from her mother , had then her secret pleasure also , and could laugh ...
... looked out a new piece of dark silk from her drawer ( Louise was a hoarder by nature ) , possessed herself secretly of the Candidate's hat , and with some little help from her mother , had then her secret pleasure also , and could laugh ...
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... looked very bitter ; and the Candidate , nothing daunted , began again . " But , in the name of all the world , " said he , " your Honour will not understand me : we speak only of a mode of obser- ving the world - a mode by which its ...
... looked very bitter ; and the Candidate , nothing daunted , began again . " But , in the name of all the world , " said he , " your Honour will not understand me : we speak only of a mode of obser- ving the world - a mode by which its ...
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... looked through the trellis - work of a tall handsome gate into pleasure- grounds which were laid out in the old - fashioned manner , and ornamented with clipped trees . Many little heads soon looked with great curiosity through the ...
... looked through the trellis - work of a tall handsome gate into pleasure- grounds which were laid out in the old - fashioned manner , and ornamented with clipped trees . Many little heads soon looked with great curiosity through the ...
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