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... hours with volumes abstracted from the library or from Lady Maud's boudoir . Though somewhat warm in temper , she was well prin- cipled , and anxious to do her pupils justice . She gave them whatever information she picked up , in ...
... hours with volumes abstracted from the library or from Lady Maud's boudoir . Though somewhat warm in temper , she was well prin- cipled , and anxious to do her pupils justice . She gave them whatever information she picked up , in ...
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... hour , and be wretched all next day because nobody had remarked it . She would glance unutterable things at her pupils , and , when questioned , put her hand to her head , and make no reply . She would sigh deeply without the smallest ...
... hour , and be wretched all next day because nobody had remarked it . She would glance unutterable things at her pupils , and , when questioned , put her hand to her head , and make no reply . She would sigh deeply without the smallest ...
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... hour of seven o'clock in the evening , on Monday next . " Subject- Evenings with the Necessarians ; or , Was Greenacre a mur- dered man ? Admission , one penny . " At the door of this cottage Nugent knocked , and the door was presently ...
... hour of seven o'clock in the evening , on Monday next . " Subject- Evenings with the Necessarians ; or , Was Greenacre a mur- dered man ? Admission , one penny . " At the door of this cottage Nugent knocked , and the door was presently ...
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... most comfortable corner by the fireside , was invisible of a morn- ing til ten o'clock , took a solemn after - dinner nap of an hour's duration , and read daily the whole of the DEATH IN THE COTTAGE . 37 DEATH IN THE COTTAGE.
... most comfortable corner by the fireside , was invisible of a morn- ing til ten o'clock , took a solemn after - dinner nap of an hour's duration , and read daily the whole of the DEATH IN THE COTTAGE . 37 DEATH IN THE COTTAGE.
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sir Arthur Hallam Elton (7th bart.) hour's duration , and read daily the whole of the advertise- ments in the Times . He lounged through life in his ample arm - chair , like a large oyster in its nether shell . On the present occasion ...
sir Arthur Hallam Elton (7th bart.) hour's duration , and read daily the whole of the advertise- ments in the Times . He lounged through life in his ample arm - chair , like a large oyster in its nether shell . On the present occasion ...
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