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You would like your friends business on himself , and would not - - somebody to
be written to , " said Lau - permit Colin to interfere , “ I wrote your derdale ; and
then , afraid to have given father a kind of a letter . If you are her pain by the ...
You would like your friends business on himself , and would not - - somebody to
be written to , " said Lau - permit Colin to interfere , “ I wrote your derdale ; and
then , afraid to have given father a kind of a letter . If you are her pain by the ...
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She told him that Mrs . Meredith had “ come home suddenly , " which was her
gentle version of a sad domestic history , that nobody had known of her father ' s
second marriage until the stepmother arrived , without any warning , with a train
of ...
She told him that Mrs . Meredith had “ come home suddenly , " which was her
gentle version of a sad domestic history , that nobody had known of her father ' s
second marriage until the stepmother arrived , without any warning , with a train
of ...
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He may not be worthy to have the known father of Alice had grown , in his charge
of her , but he ' s aye her father . eyes , into a cruel and profligate tyrant , It ' s hard
to ken whether it ' s better or ready to drag his daughter home and worse that ...
He may not be worthy to have the known father of Alice had grown , in his charge
of her , but he ' s aye her father . eyes , into a cruel and profligate tyrant , It ' s hard
to ken whether it ' s better or ready to drag his daughter home and worse that ...
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... saddest mourners received it , and all that evening said hel - less widows , and
little children , nothing on the subject until Alice had heartbroken fathers and
mothers , per - retired with her watchful attendant ; haps the least consolable of
all .
... saddest mourners received it , and all that evening said hel - less widows , and
little children , nothing on the subject until Alice had heartbroken fathers and
mothers , per - retired with her watchful attendant ; haps the least consolable of
all .
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... to live on , and she can do as she pleases . Considering what her ingratitude
has brought her dear father to , and that I may be left alone to manage everything
before many days are past , you will please to con - sider that here is an end of it
...
... to live on , and she can do as she pleases . Considering what her ingratitude
has brought her dear father to , and that I may be left alone to manage everything
before many days are past , you will please to con - sider that here is an end of it
...
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Page 29 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Page 303 - I understood, too, that, in ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery.
Page 29 - And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? and what dread feet?
Page 493 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
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Page 303 - I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constitution all together. When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity.
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Page 29 - So I piped, he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer.' So I sung the same again While he wept with joy to hear. 'Piper sit thee down and write In a book that all may read — ' So he vanish'd from my sight.