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Page 16
... father , is incredible , in opening a child's head .- ' Tis enough , brother Shandy , cried my uncle Toby , to burst it into a thousand splinters.'37 But although Tristram is the victim of so many of his father's opinions , it is ...
... father , is incredible , in opening a child's head .- ' Tis enough , brother Shandy , cried my uncle Toby , to burst it into a thousand splinters.'37 But although Tristram is the victim of so many of his father's opinions , it is ...
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... Father's papers . well knowing that there was some amongst them which ought not to have been seen no not even by his Daughter nor sha I have wish'd to see one of them ! mama is very much chagrin'd at this for notwithstanding she can ...
... Father's papers . well knowing that there was some amongst them which ought not to have been seen no not even by his Daughter nor sha I have wish'd to see one of them ! mama is very much chagrin'd at this for notwithstanding she can ...
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... father's wit I have not the least grain in my composition we both thought it an unhappy turn in my father ... ... .I am so far from being a diseuse de bons mots I think I never was guilty of one in my life . I am when in company ...
... father's wit I have not the least grain in my composition we both thought it an unhappy turn in my father ... ... .I am so far from being a diseuse de bons mots I think I never was guilty of one in my life . I am when in company ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page xiii | 1 |
When They Begot Me | 33 |
Heygomad | 45 |
Copyright | |
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