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... spirit , Macready , will drive the matter on . It is odd enough that I and this zealous friend of mine have never met ! He is just such another soul of fire as Haydon - highly edu- 66 cated , and a man of great literary acquirements - A 2.
... spirit , Macready , will drive the matter on . It is odd enough that I and this zealous friend of mine have never met ! He is just such another soul of fire as Haydon - highly edu- 66 cated , and a man of great literary acquirements - A 2.
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... spirits — to try if he can himself obtain any employment that may lighten the burden . He is , as you know , active , healthy , and intelligent , and with a strong sense of duty and of right . I am sure that he would fulfill to the ...
... spirits — to try if he can himself obtain any employment that may lighten the burden . He is , as you know , active , healthy , and intelligent , and with a strong sense of duty and of right . I am sure that he would fulfill to the ...
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... spirit ? Mr. Macready does not mean the author to be known , and I do not think it will be found out , which is the reason of my requesting so earnestly your silence on the subject . Macready thinks that my sex was , in great part , the ...
... spirit ? Mr. Macready does not mean the author to be known , and I do not think it will be found out , which is the reason of my requesting so earnestly your silence on the subject . Macready thinks that my sex was , in great part , the ...
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... spirit ! Adieu , my dear friend . I trust that you are going on well with your sitters . They who come to you now are persons of taste . In a very short time it will be the fashion to come , and therefore no criterion . Always most ...
... spirit ! Adieu , my dear friend . I trust that you are going on well with your sitters . They who come to you now are persons of taste . In a very short time it will be the fashion to come , and therefore no criterion . Always most ...
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... spirit ; for he is getting on incredi- bly , and will be the Mr. Scarlett of twenty years hence ; the other two will , I hope , follow in order . Once again , good - bye . My postscript threatens to be longer than my letter - but you ...
... spirit ; for he is getting on incredi- bly , and will be the Mr. Scarlett of twenty years hence ; the other two will , I hope , follow in order . Once again , good - bye . My postscript threatens to be longer than my letter - but you ...
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