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more involved , till at last the family became almost wholly dependent on my mother's small marriage settlement of less than a hundred a year , supplemented by his taking a few pupils and by a small salary which he received as librarian ...
more involved , till at last the family became almost wholly dependent on my mother's small marriage settlement of less than a hundred a year , supplemented by his taking a few pupils and by a small salary which he received as librarian ...
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As I knew it , it was a circular pond nearly a hundred feet in diameter , filled with the most crystal clear water , and very deep in the centre , where the springs were continually bubbling upward , keeping up a good stream which ...
As I knew it , it was a circular pond nearly a hundred feet in diameter , filled with the most crystal clear water , and very deep in the centre , where the springs were continually bubbling upward , keeping up a good stream which ...
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Walking along the London Road , in about a mile and a half we reached Hertford Heath at a height of three hundred feet above the sea , and half a mile further was Haileybury College , then a training college for the East India Company ...
Walking along the London Road , in about a mile and a half we reached Hertford Heath at a height of three hundred feet above the sea , and half a mile further was Haileybury College , then a training college for the East India Company ...
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The castle was a modern building in the castellated style , but it stood in spacious grounds of about four acres near the middle of the town , with the river flowing through a part of it , and with about two hundred yards of the old ...
The castle was a modern building in the castellated style , but it stood in spacious grounds of about four acres near the middle of the town , with the river flowing through a part of it , and with about two hundred yards of the old ...
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The house where the masters lived and where we had our meals and slept was in Fore Street , and was about two hundred feet away from the school ; and the large schoolroom was the only place we had to go to in wet weather , when not at ...
The house where the masters lived and where we had our meals and slept was in Fore Street , and was about two hundred feet away from the school ; and the large schoolroom was the only place we had to go to in wet weather , when not at ...
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