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Page 5
... beside your mother's coffin , as no doubt you would wish to do . Just one more thing ; I gathered from your mother's friends that she wished to be buried with the rites of the Church . I've made arrangements for this ; but I thought I ...
... beside your mother's coffin , as no doubt you would wish to do . Just one more thing ; I gathered from your mother's friends that she wished to be buried with the rites of the Church . I've made arrangements for this ; but I thought I ...
Page 15
... Besides the nurse on duty , he told me , he and I would be the only mourners at the funeral . It was a rule of the Home that inmates shouldn't attend funerals , though there was no objection to letting some of them sit up beside the ...
... Besides the nurse on duty , he told me , he and I would be the only mourners at the funeral . It was a rule of the Home that inmates shouldn't attend funerals , though there was no objection to letting some of them sit up beside the ...
Page 93
... beside me was still yelling away , telling her husband that she'd left a basket for him in the prison office . She gave a list of the things she'd brought and told him to mind and check them carefully , as some had cost quite a lot ...
... beside me was still yelling away , telling her husband that she'd left a basket for him in the prison office . She gave a list of the things she'd brought and told him to mind and check them carefully , as some had cost quite a lot ...
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