Below the surface [by sir A.H. Elton]. |
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... doctors , thirteen clergymen having something the matter with their throats , several in- valids , a few stray dowagers and elderly gentlemen , who , under pretence of making love to each other , are perpetually discussing and comparing ...
... doctors , thirteen clergymen having something the matter with their throats , several in- valids , a few stray dowagers and elderly gentlemen , who , under pretence of making love to each other , are perpetually discussing and comparing ...
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... country bumpkin , after he had day after day flattened his nose against the window - frame as he returned home from work , and marvelled whether the quack - doctor could do anything for " our Polly , " or 30 BELOW THE SURFACE .
... country bumpkin , after he had day after day flattened his nose against the window - frame as he returned home from work , and marvelled whether the quack - doctor could do anything for " our Polly , " or 30 BELOW THE SURFACE .
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... doctor , took a very hopeful view of his son Reginald's case . A new course of treatment was to be tried , from which decided results were expected . Nugent wrote a few lines in reply , then , leaving the writing- table , and throwing ...
... doctor , took a very hopeful view of his son Reginald's case . A new course of treatment was to be tried , from which decided results were expected . Nugent wrote a few lines in reply , then , leaving the writing- table , and throwing ...
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... doctor's ; his purse was open to them , more than was perhaps strictly prudent ; his earnest prayers and tender sympathy reached their hearts better than any amount of material gifts could have done . Such plain tokens of sincerity and ...
... doctor's ; his purse was open to them , more than was perhaps strictly prudent ; his earnest prayers and tender sympathy reached their hearts better than any amount of material gifts could have done . Such plain tokens of sincerity and ...
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... doctor has been sent for . " Gertrude returned to the schoolroom , and endeavoured to console her sisters as well as she could . She thought she would read to them out of the Bible . Her mind instinctively turned to that source of peace ...
... doctor has been sent for . " Gertrude returned to the schoolroom , and endeavoured to console her sisters as well as she could . She thought she would read to them out of the Bible . Her mind instinctively turned to that source of peace ...
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