The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ...: Told by Herself in Letters to Her Friends, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1870 |
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... father has at last re- solved partly , I believe , instigated by the effect which the terrible feeling of responsibility and want of power has had on my health and spirits — to try if he can himself obtain any employment that may ...
... father has at last re- solved partly , I believe , instigated by the effect which the terrible feeling of responsibility and want of power has had on my health and spirits — to try if he can himself obtain any employment that may ...
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... father , relying with a blessed sanguineness on my poor endeavors , has not , I believe , even inquired for a situation ; and I do not press the matter , though I anxiously wish it , being willing to give one more trial to the theatre ...
... father , relying with a blessed sanguineness on my poor endeavors , has not , I believe , even inquired for a situation ; and I do not press the matter , though I anxiously wish it , being willing to give one more trial to the theatre ...
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... father's anxiety , great as it was , did not , however , incapacitate him from being the kindest and most excellent of nurses . He was a thousand times more useful than I ; for the working of this perpetual fear on my mind was really ...
... father's anxiety , great as it was , did not , however , incapacitate him from being the kindest and most excellent of nurses . He was a thousand times more useful than I ; for the working of this perpetual fear on my mind was really ...
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... father and mother have been out in it three or four times , to my great delight ; I am sure it will do them both so ... father's illness , and therefore unfit for writing ( though not at all ill , and now getting the better even of that ...
... father and mother have been out in it three or four times , to my great delight ; I am sure it will do them both so ... father's illness , and therefore unfit for writing ( though not at all ill , and now getting the better even of that ...
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... father's and mother's best regards . Ever , my dear friend , your obliged and affectionate M. R. MITFORD . What you say of Haydon's picture grieves me much . Some parts of his other pictures ( I have not seen this ) al- ways seemed to ...
... father's and mother's best regards . Ever , my dear friend , your obliged and affectionate M. R. MITFORD . What you say of Haydon's picture grieves me much . Some parts of his other pictures ( I have not seen this ) al- ways seemed to ...
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