The Whispers of a Shell; Or, Stories from the SeaGriffith and Farran (successors to Newbery and Harris), 1871 - 244 pages |
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... father , it is true , but he was rarely at home , and my time was chiefly spent alone with my mother during the day . My father was the captain and part owner of a small trading brig , and was continually at sea . I daresay his frequent ...
... father , it is true , but he was rarely at home , and my time was chiefly spent alone with my mother during the day . My father was the captain and part owner of a small trading brig , and was continually at sea . I daresay his frequent ...
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... father's vessel always came in at the small shipping town of Brackley , which lay about two miles inland on the shore of the little river Brack . Our cottage stood about a mile from the mouth of the river , and we could therefore see ...
... father's vessel always came in at the small shipping town of Brackley , which lay about two miles inland on the shore of the little river Brack . Our cottage stood about a mile from the mouth of the river , and we could therefore see ...
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... father's handi- work on one of his few home visits . It was a queer structure , and was entered through an arch made by the two huge bones of a whale , over which my mother had vainly tried to coax some of her scarlet - runner beans ...
... father's handi- work on one of his few home visits . It was a queer structure , and was entered through an arch made by the two huge bones of a whale , over which my mother had vainly tried to coax some of her scarlet - runner beans ...
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... father had returned , I had listened with the deepest interest when he had been relating to my mother the wonderful travels of a bottle which had been filled with letters , corked and sealed , and then thrown overboard in far distant ...
... father had returned , I had listened with the deepest interest when he had been relating to my mother the wonderful travels of a bottle which had been filled with letters , corked and sealed , and then thrown overboard in far distant ...
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... father died before she was quite twenty , and within a couple of years her mother married again , and I daresay not very wisely . So the girl's home was not a very happy one , with a stranger ( not over - kind ) in her own father's ...
... father died before she was quite twenty , and within a couple of years her mother married again , and I daresay not very wisely . So the girl's home was not a very happy one , with a stranger ( not over - kind ) in her own father's ...
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