The Lady of the Manor ...A Towar, 1833 |
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... old lady , not sorry to be relieved by this excellent woman of the charge which he would have found particularly burdensome in the line of life he had selected . Mr. Muller was not much more than twenty - eight when he became a widower ...
... old lady , not sorry to be relieved by this excellent woman of the charge which he would have found particularly burdensome in the line of life he had selected . Mr. Muller was not much more than twenty - eight when he became a widower ...
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... old grandmother mingled her sobs with those of her son - in - law ; and , from that day , it was observed , that she never failed to remember him in her prayers - thus performing a duty for this unhappy man which he never thought it ...
... old grandmother mingled her sobs with those of her son - in - law ; and , from that day , it was observed , that she never failed to remember him in her prayers - thus performing a duty for this unhappy man which he never thought it ...
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... old lady generally contrived to disperse , by a friendly word , or some little act of kindness , which was often known only to the child himself . By this means , little Christopher , when relieved from his father's pre- sence , soon ...
... old lady generally contrived to disperse , by a friendly word , or some little act of kindness , which was often known only to the child himself . By this means , little Christopher , when relieved from his father's pre- sence , soon ...
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... old man in constitution , though young in years ; and that the irritation of his temper was become much greater : for the major had found the pleasures of the world greatly inferior to the ideas he had formed of them ; and , having no ...
... old man in constitution , though young in years ; and that the irritation of his temper was become much greater : for the major had found the pleasures of the world greatly inferior to the ideas he had formed of them ; and , having no ...
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... old grand- mother , whose heart warming on the occasion , she hasten- ed to bring forward Christopher , who had drawn somewhat into the back - ground . The major , in the mean time , had seated himself on a chair in the hall , and was ...
... old grand- mother , whose heart warming on the occasion , she hasten- ed to bring forward Christopher , who had drawn somewhat into the back - ground . The major , in the mean time , had seated himself on a chair in the hall , and was ...
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