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Page 49
Until my father fell and died I never dreamed that he could die. I knew that his
mind was quite made up to see me safe in my new home, and then himself to
start again, for stiU remoter solitudes. And when his mind was thus made up, who
had ...
Until my father fell and died I never dreamed that he could die. I knew that his
mind was quite made up to see me safe in my new home, and then himself to
start again, for stiU remoter solitudes. And when his mind was thus made up, who
had ...
Page 50
Whether the time were long or short, it seemed as if it would never end. My father
believed that he knew the way to the house of an old settler, at the western foot of
the mountains, who had treated him kindly some years before, and with whom ...
Whether the time were long or short, it seemed as if it would never end. My father
believed that he knew the way to the house of an old settler, at the western foot of
the mountains, who had treated him kindly some years before, and with whom ...
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... of hazy light soon would follow, and one bright glimmer (addressed more to the
sky than to the earth), and after that a broad, soft gleam ; and after that how many
a man should never see the sun again, and among them would be my father.
... of hazy light soon would follow, and one bright glimmer (addressed more to the
sky than to the earth), and after that a broad, soft gleam ; and after that how many
a man should never see the sun again, and among them would be my father.
Page 53
He never found more than one man true on earth, and it was you, Sir." " Come,
now," he replied, with his eyes for a moment sparkling at my warmth of words ; "
yon mnst not have that in yonr young head, missy. It leads to a miserable life.
He never found more than one man true on earth, and it was you, Sir." " Come,
now," he replied, with his eyes for a moment sparkling at my warmth of words ; "
yon mnst not have that in yonr young head, missy. It leads to a miserable life.
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I never knew it, I never guessed it, until he gave his life for mine ; but, poor little
common thing as I was, I became his only tie to earth. Even to me he was never
loving, in the way some fathers are. He never called me by pet names, nor
dandled ...
I never knew it, I never guessed it, until he gave his life for mine ; but, poor little
common thing as I was, I became his only tie to earth. Even to me he was never
loving, in the way some fathers are. He never called me by pet names, nor
dandled ...
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