The Whispers of a Shell; Or, Stories from the SeaGriffith and Farran (successors to Newbery and Harris), 1871 - 244 pages |
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... feeling . My 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 ...
... feeling . My 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 ...
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... feelings more perfectly , I can see how strong her mental effort must have been to seem even so outwardly calm , and how hard she strove to be patient and brave . I was myself a very wayward child , and had been from my birth somewhat ...
... feelings more perfectly , I can see how strong her mental effort must have been to seem even so outwardly calm , and how hard she strove to be patient and brave . I was myself a very wayward child , and had been from my birth somewhat ...
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... feeling almost as if I were taken to task for making her worse , ' I don't think this bitter cold winter did her any good , for she's had a bad cough ever since Christmas . But she seemed better to - day , and I think the warm summer ...
... feeling almost as if I were taken to task for making her worse , ' I don't think this bitter cold winter did her any good , for she's had a bad cough ever since Christmas . But she seemed better to - day , and I think the warm summer ...
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... feeling still crushed and bewildered , and yielding to what seemed all so resolutely arranged for me , answered , ' Yes , aunt , I will ! ' in a tone so spirit- less and broken , that my aunt was touched by it into laying her hand ...
... feeling still crushed and bewildered , and yielding to what seemed all so resolutely arranged for me , answered , ' Yes , aunt , I will ! ' in a tone so spirit- less and broken , that my aunt was touched by it into laying her hand ...
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... feeling and delicate sympathy than even my aunt . In fact , I instinctively clung to him , and crept , as it were , within the shelter of his presence in this new strange home . He brought me a quaint little stool , that had evidently ...
... feeling and delicate sympathy than even my aunt . In fact , I instinctively clung to him , and crept , as it were , within the shelter of his presence in this new strange home . He brought me a quaint little stool , that had evidently ...
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