The Whispers of a Shell; Or, Stories from the SeaGriffith and Farran (successors to Newbery and Harris), 1871 - 244 pages |
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... appetite , enfeebled by long and wasting sickness , my savoury messes and doughy dumps of pudding must have been nauseous enough . But she never complained , and so I went muddling on in happy ignorance of I 2 The Whispers of a Shell .
... appetite , enfeebled by long and wasting sickness , my savoury messes and doughy dumps of pudding must have been nauseous enough . But she never complained , and so I went muddling on in happy ignorance of I 2 The Whispers of a Shell .
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... never known much of the fisher children near by , for my own inherited reserve and love for solitary wander- ings had still more strongly enforced my observance of my mother's desire , that I should have but little intercourse with our ...
... never known much of the fisher children near by , for my own inherited reserve and love for solitary wander- ings had still more strongly enforced my observance of my mother's desire , that I should have but little intercourse with our ...
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... never remembered her very bright or strong , and could therefore the less appreciate the change . One afternoon , however , when the weather was more than usually balmy , calm , and bright , when I had set her chair and footstool ready ...
... never remembered her very bright or strong , and could therefore the less appreciate the change . One afternoon , however , when the weather was more than usually balmy , calm , and bright , when I had set her chair and footstool ready ...
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... never deigned to partake of any ordinary form of the gene- ral style of tea - brewing . Having , therefore , spent all my best care on this occasion , I placed the quaint little pot on the hob , close to my mother's The Cottage on the ...
... never deigned to partake of any ordinary form of the gene- ral style of tea - brewing . Having , therefore , spent all my best care on this occasion , I placed the quaint little pot on the hob , close to my mother's The Cottage on the ...
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... never counted how the time had gone . I was eager enough to get into the garden , for I had already seen that a little grotto I had erected last summer with oyster shells , under my mother's own amused superintendence , had suffered ...
... never counted how the time had gone . I was eager enough to get into the garden , for I had already seen that a little grotto I had erected last summer with oyster shells , under my mother's own amused superintendence , had suffered ...
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