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... seemed to thrive , as season succeeded season , with marvellous luxuriance . Nothing could destroy the daffodils . Sir Harold had long since crumbled into dust , but each succeeding spring the daffodils , peeping out slily from the ...
... seemed to thrive , as season succeeded season , with marvellous luxuriance . Nothing could destroy the daffodils . Sir Harold had long since crumbled into dust , but each succeeding spring the daffodils , peeping out slily from the ...
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... seemed to be generally occupied in staring at vacancy . Taking him from the ground upwards , Soppy's feet were large , his toes square , and his calves tubby . Black cloth breeches of the old school , with steel buckles shining TOO FAST ...
... seemed to be generally occupied in staring at vacancy . Taking him from the ground upwards , Soppy's feet were large , his toes square , and his calves tubby . Black cloth breeches of the old school , with steel buckles shining TOO FAST ...
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... seemed to have been monopolized by successive generations of his ancestors , and duly inherited as a family brand by him . Thick and crisp nut - brown curls surmounted a high and expansive brow , and a small , round , black velvet cap ...
... seemed to have been monopolized by successive generations of his ancestors , and duly inherited as a family brand by him . Thick and crisp nut - brown curls surmounted a high and expansive brow , and a small , round , black velvet cap ...
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... seemed more than acceptable to Ivy Girling . The cloud of anger vanished from her still flushed features , and they became on the spot as good friends as ever . CHAPTER IV . WITHIN and without the archway forming the entrance to an old ...
... seemed more than acceptable to Ivy Girling . The cloud of anger vanished from her still flushed features , and they became on the spot as good friends as ever . CHAPTER IV . WITHIN and without the archway forming the entrance to an old ...
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... seemed daily throughout the year to anticipate the question by bringing from one of the secret depths of a capacious pocket in his black velveteen jacket a rabbit slain expressly for the occasion . Taking into consideration the erratic ...
... seemed daily throughout the year to anticipate the question by bringing from one of the secret depths of a capacious pocket in his black velveteen jacket a rabbit slain expressly for the occasion . Taking into consideration the erratic ...
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added the Colonel appeared arms asked Aubrey Leferne Aunt Margaret began Billy Bottles Brentford Bromley Marsh brow chair CHAPTER cheeks Colonel Leferne colours colt continued the Colonel daffodils dairyman Dame Soppy dear boy Derby ejaculated exclaimed eyes feel felt fingers fixed gamekeeper gaze gentleman Greatwood Park hand Harry Girling head heard heart horse inquired Ivy Girling Jacket and Gaiters Jeremiah Early Johnny Tadpole knew lawyer Leferne's lips listen little Mite look Mark Rookson Master Aubrey never Newmarket nose observed the Colonel old grey mare perhaps possessed Queen Mary race rejoined the Colonel remarked repeated replied the Colonel responded the Colonel resumed the Colonel returned the Colonel Robert Roundhead Samuel Wideo scarcely seemed silence smile Soppy's speak spoke stood Taddy there's things Thomas Soppy thought tone and manner turned Unknown vicar voice wife William Bottles wish words
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