My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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Page 51
... Lady Burdett - Coutts , with her friend Mrs. Brown , were staying near , and often drove over and took us all for some more distant excursions . This meeting and my friendship with Sir James Brooke led to my receiving several ...
... Lady Burdett - Coutts , with her friend Mrs. Brown , were staying near , and often drove over and took us all for some more distant excursions . This meeting and my friendship with Sir James Brooke led to my receiving several ...
Page 52
... Lady Burdett - Coutts , and I was never invited again — a matter which did not at all disturb me , as the people I met there were not very interesting to me . When Sir James Brooke heard of my indiscretion , he wrote to me very kindly ...
... Lady Burdett - Coutts , and I was never invited again — a matter which did not at all disturb me , as the people I met there were not very interesting to me . When Sir James Brooke heard of my indiscretion , he wrote to me very kindly ...
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... Lady Duff Gordon's ' Letters from Egypt ' ) . Your friend would no doubt impute whatever scraps of goodness there may exist in myself to the Christianity in which I was educated ; but I know and feel ( though it would no doubt shock him ...
... Lady Duff Gordon's ' Letters from Egypt ' ) . Your friend would no doubt impute whatever scraps of goodness there may exist in myself to the Christianity in which I was educated ; but I know and feel ( though it would no doubt shock him ...
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... ladies . He was also very fond of gardening , and we spent much of our time in long walks about the grounds , where there were quantities of the finest species of conifers from about ten to thirty feet high and in perfect health , and ...
... ladies . He was also very fond of gardening , and we spent much of our time in long walks about the grounds , where there were quantities of the finest species of conifers from about ten to thirty feet high and in perfect health , and ...
Page 76
... Lady asks me to become her husband - I ax her to become my wife - that's Mutual Selec- tion - ain't it ' Natural ' ? The question of the ' fittest ' is a subsequent affair : as is the Creation by birth , etc. , etc. " But the pleasure ...
... Lady asks me to become her husband - I ax her to become my wife - that's Mutual Selec- tion - ain't it ' Natural ' ? The question of the ' fittest ' is a subsequent affair : as is the Creation by birth , etc. , etc. " But the pleasure ...
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