Felix Holt, the RadicalHarper, 1871 - 529 pages |
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... natural , who got into bad company . They said his mother hated him and wished him dead ; for she'd got another son , quite of a dif- ferent cut , who had gone to foreign parts when he was a youngster , and she wanted her favorite to be ...
... natural , who got into bad company . They said his mother hated him and wished him dead ; for she'd got another son , quite of a dif- ferent cut , who had gone to foreign parts when he was a youngster , and she wanted her favorite to be ...
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... nature's powdery paint , deposited year after year . Already in the village of Little Treby , which lay on the side of a steep hill not far off the lodge gates , the elder matrons sat in their best gowns at the few cottage doors ...
... nature's powdery paint , deposited year after year . Already in the village of Little Treby , which lay on the side of a steep hill not far off the lodge gates , the elder matrons sat in their best gowns at the few cottage doors ...
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... natures , he had a strong faith in his luck ; he had been gay at their parting , and had promised to make his fortune ; and in spite of past disappointments , Harold's possible fortune still made some ground for his mother to plant her ...
... natures , he had a strong faith in his luck ; he had been gay at their parting , and had promised to make his fortune ; and in spite of past disappointments , Harold's possible fortune still made some ground for his mother to plant her ...
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... nature was thoroughly roused , he had found useful in many relations , especially in business . No one could have found out that he was not at his ease . " My opinion , " he replied , " is in a state of balance at pres- ent . This ...
... nature was thoroughly roused , he had found useful in many relations , especially in business . No one could have found out that he was not at his ease . " My opinion , " he replied , " is in a state of balance at pres- ent . This ...
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... natural that you should think in this way . Women , very properly , don't change their views , but keep to the notions in which they have been brought up . It doesn't signify what they think - they are not called upon to judge or to act ...
... natural that you should think in this way . Women , very properly , don't change their views , but keep to the notions in which they have been brought up . It doesn't signify what they think - they are not called upon to judge or to act ...
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