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... direction until it conducted you to a fence of iron hurdles that protected from intruding cattle a tolerably well - kept lawn and garden . Here stood , close under the hill , with a background of elms , a long , low , old- fashioned ...
... direction until it conducted you to a fence of iron hurdles that protected from intruding cattle a tolerably well - kept lawn and garden . Here stood , close under the hill , with a background of elms , a long , low , old- fashioned ...
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... direction has become a matter of decided expediency ; indeed , I may say " -sighing gently " of clear duty : a mother's duty . Gertrude's maid , Lucy , now an invalid , ascertained through her brother , that Reginald Clinton , the son ...
... direction has become a matter of decided expediency ; indeed , I may say " -sighing gently " of clear duty : a mother's duty . Gertrude's maid , Lucy , now an invalid , ascertained through her brother , that Reginald Clinton , the son ...
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... directions to one or two men who were waiting for him outside , Nugent , going through the garden , and passing through a gate at the upper end , under some tall fir - trees , was soon upon a breezy down overlooking his whole farmstead ...
... directions to one or two men who were waiting for him outside , Nugent , going through the garden , and passing through a gate at the upper end , under some tall fir - trees , was soon upon a breezy down overlooking his whole farmstead ...
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... direction their crooked branches as if to escape from the prevalent wind which vexed them . After stopping to converse with his shepherd - whom he found devouring bread and cheese on the lee side of a wall , with some hundred sheep ...
... direction their crooked branches as if to escape from the prevalent wind which vexed them . After stopping to converse with his shepherd - whom he found devouring bread and cheese on the lee side of a wall , with some hundred sheep ...
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... direction , and in another I counted no less than three men with black eyes ; whilst many of the mob were so drunk that only the excessive crush kept them upright on their legs ! " " All this is very sad , " said Lovell ; " but , after ...
... direction , and in another I counted no less than three men with black eyes ; whilst many of the mob were so drunk that only the excessive crush kept them upright on their legs ! " " All this is very sad , " said Lovell ; " but , after ...
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