Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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... leave this awhile , for I shall have occasion to speak of it again ; my case was particularly hard , for I had a variety of foolish things complicated in this unhappy match . First , and which I must confess is very unsufferable , he ...
... leave this awhile , for I shall have occasion to speak of it again ; my case was particularly hard , for I had a variety of foolish things complicated in this unhappy match . First , and which I must confess is very unsufferable , he ...
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... leave any one that is a mother of children , and has lived in plenty and good fashion , to con- sider and reflect what must be my condition . As to my husband , I had now no hope or expectation of seeing him any more ; and indeed , if I ...
... leave any one that is a mother of children , and has lived in plenty and good fashion , to con- sider and reflect what must be my condition . As to my husband , I had now no hope or expectation of seeing him any more ; and indeed , if I ...
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... leave me ; nay , and as long as she had any money , when I had none , she would help me out of her own , for which , though I acknowledged her kindness and fidelity , yet it was but a bad coin that she was paid in at last , as will ...
... leave me ; nay , and as long as she had any money , when I had none , she would help me out of her own , for which , though I acknowledged her kindness and fidelity , yet it was but a bad coin that she was paid in at last , as will ...
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... leave to live for a whole year more without any rent , being moved with compassion ; but that this year was now almost expired . Upon hearing this account , they came to this resolution , that the children should be all carried by them ...
... leave to live for a whole year more without any rent , being moved with compassion ; but that this year was now almost expired . Upon hearing this account , they came to this resolution , that the children should be all carried by them ...
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... leave the management of the whole matter to my maid Amy and to them , and accordingly I did so ; and the same afternoon they carried them all away to one of their aunts . Amy , a resolute girl , knocked at the door , with the children ...
... leave the management of the whole matter to my maid Amy and to them , and accordingly I did so ; and the same afternoon they carried them all away to one of their aunts . Amy , a resolute girl , knocked at the door , with the children ...
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