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... second question first , as if it had been the most important , and eagerly replied , ' Oh , quite near here , only a short six miles ' drive , and a very good road . " 66 " Who is he , though ? " I repeated ; and added , with a little ...
... second question first , as if it had been the most important , and eagerly replied , ' Oh , quite near here , only a short six miles ' drive , and a very good road . " 66 " Who is he , though ? " I repeated ; and added , with a little ...
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... second attack at the Chace being worse and more hopeless than the first . But still he did not see his way towards preventing it by stopping the invitation , and said therefore- “ Of course , Sir Ralph , you must do just as you please ...
... second attack at the Chace being worse and more hopeless than the first . But still he did not see his way towards preventing it by stopping the invitation , and said therefore- “ Of course , Sir Ralph , you must do just as you please ...
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... second time since Raymond left , when both her father and her grand - uncle agreed that " something must be done . " Love never feels its utter helplessness until it tries its might against death , and it had come to this , that whilst ...
... second time since Raymond left , when both her father and her grand - uncle agreed that " something must be done . " Love never feels its utter helplessness until it tries its might against death , and it had come to this , that whilst ...
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... second visit to Lough Shellach had , as I remembered , been hazarded on a similar occasion two years previously . Some one said then , and indeed I had often heard it said before , " How charming Marjory Fraser is ! there is no one like ...
... second visit to Lough Shellach had , as I remembered , been hazarded on a similar occasion two years previously . Some one said then , and indeed I had often heard it said before , " How charming Marjory Fraser is ! there is no one like ...
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... second headland . It did not require the obtrusive loud sigh of my next neighbour , a gigantic but sus- ceptible artilleryman , to tell me that Marjory Fraser was of the party ; nor , although there were other ladies among the group ...
... second headland . It did not require the obtrusive loud sigh of my next neighbour , a gigantic but sus- ceptible artilleryman , to tell me that Marjory Fraser was of the party ; nor , although there were other ladies among the group ...
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