Retrospection: A TaleTaylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1821 - 230 pages |
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... staring wildly with his ghastly eyes , - " Not find it ! Why , what can I have done with it ? I tell you , I cannot get a wink of sleep till it is found . What , lose four pounds ten ! Somebody must have got at the drawers 2 RETROSPECTION .
... staring wildly with his ghastly eyes , - " Not find it ! Why , what can I have done with it ? I tell you , I cannot get a wink of sleep till it is found . What , lose four pounds ten ! Somebody must have got at the drawers 2 RETROSPECTION .
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... eye over the papers , and after performing his pro- fessional duty , put them into his pocket ; and sped him home to the parsonage , where , for several evenings , the attention of the family was engaged by listening to the following ...
... eye over the papers , and after performing his pro- fessional duty , put them into his pocket ; and sped him home to the parsonage , where , for several evenings , the attention of the family was engaged by listening to the following ...
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... eye , he would be exposed to a thousand temptations . For some time , his filial affection and tenderness prevented him from deve- loping the whole of his scheme ; but what was her grief and dismay , when she discovered his intention of ...
... eye , he would be exposed to a thousand temptations . For some time , his filial affection and tenderness prevented him from deve- loping the whole of his scheme ; but what was her grief and dismay , when she discovered his intention of ...
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... eye . The regular habits and manner of life of the family at the farm , together with pure air and simple diet , operated so favourably on my health and spirits , that in a short time no vestiges of my former indisposi tion remained . A ...
... eye . The regular habits and manner of life of the family at the farm , together with pure air and simple diet , operated so favourably on my health and spirits , that in a short time no vestiges of my former indisposi tion remained . A ...
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... In the mean time , the improved aspect of the family was visible to every eye : - the house throughout bore all the marks management , skill , and address ; and of she did not scruple to insinuate , in an in- 54 RETROSPECTION .
... In the mean time , the improved aspect of the family was visible to every eye : - the house throughout bore all the marks management , skill , and address ; and of she did not scruple to insinuate , in an in- 54 RETROSPECTION .
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