'Look before you leap' [by A.F. Hector]. |
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... thousands for a capital - and the world before him , with no business- training or habits , to what could he turn himself ? Yet he knew that he possessed a certain amount of method and capa- bility for organization , with a conscious ...
... thousands for a capital - and the world before him , with no business- training or habits , to what could he turn himself ? Yet he knew that he possessed a certain amount of method and capa- bility for organization , with a conscious ...
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... thousand or two more to turn the scale , and free Miss Delvigne from prose- cution on my account . " ' Now , Fred , your sarcasm is all very fine ; but I believe in your heart you would be right well pleased to be married to my ...
... thousand or two more to turn the scale , and free Miss Delvigne from prose- cution on my account . " ' Now , Fred , your sarcasm is all very fine ; but I believe in your heart you would be right well pleased to be married to my ...
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... thousand queries , and to hear , perchance , what her lips had uttered , even through the medium of a cab - driver's repetition . What if they should find her where they were going ; sad , lonely , almost penniless ! With what rapture ...
... thousand queries , and to hear , perchance , what her lips had uttered , even through the medium of a cab - driver's repetition . What if they should find her where they were going ; sad , lonely , almost penniless ! With what rapture ...
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... godliness among his poorer brethren ; of the routine of to - morrow's business ; of the investment which offered yesterday for certain loose thousands ; of that opening to trade and religion ( 122 LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP . '
... godliness among his poorer brethren ; of the routine of to - morrow's business ; of the investment which offered yesterday for certain loose thousands ; of that opening to trade and religion ( 122 LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP . '
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Annie French Hector. thousands ; of that opening to trade and religion ( we beg pardon ) , religion and trade on the West Coast of Africa - but all these trains of thought were broken and rendered futile by the light of those sweet , sad ...
Annie French Hector. thousands ; of that opening to trade and religion ( we beg pardon ) , religion and trade on the West Coast of Africa - but all these trains of thought were broken and rendered futile by the light of those sweet , sad ...
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