'Look before you leap' [by A.F. Hector]. |
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... character- istic they all had tight , long , coloured stockings , and boots , more or less worn , and ill - fastened hair nets , and hats , with mangy feathers , flounced frocks , the flounces a good deal ripped ; still the two younger ...
... character- istic they all had tight , long , coloured stockings , and boots , more or less worn , and ill - fastened hair nets , and hats , with mangy feathers , flounced frocks , the flounces a good deal ripped ; still the two younger ...
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... character than women possess ; even with a gentleman supposed by birth and profession to be imbued with the exalted sentiment called chivalry ! Better , far , O reader ! in such a di- lemma , be cast on the native generosity of a woman ...
... character than women possess ; even with a gentleman supposed by birth and profession to be imbued with the exalted sentiment called chivalry ! Better , far , O reader ! in such a di- lemma , be cast on the native generosity of a woman ...
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... character . ' And he looked into Marie's sad eyes with a keen , stedfast gaze , as though he defied their dark , lustrous depths to hide any secret from him . ' I will speak all truth to you , so far as I dare , ' returned Marie , with ...
... character . ' And he looked into Marie's sad eyes with a keen , stedfast gaze , as though he defied their dark , lustrous depths to hide any secret from him . ' I will speak all truth to you , so far as I dare , ' returned Marie , with ...
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... was at once a source of triumph and of laughter to his ward . She , the despised French teacher , was suddenly installed as mistress of his part- ner's house - a partner , whose force of character 212 " LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP . '
... was at once a source of triumph and of laughter to his ward . She , the despised French teacher , was suddenly installed as mistress of his part- ner's house - a partner , whose force of character 212 " LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP . '
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Annie French Hector. ner's house - a partner , whose force of character made him considerably the old gentleman's master . Mrs. Neville was in her favourite cos- tume of black silk , and employed in writing to Sir Frederic Compton , and ...
Annie French Hector. ner's house - a partner , whose force of character made him considerably the old gentleman's master . Mrs. Neville was in her favourite cos- tume of black silk , and employed in writing to Sir Frederic Compton , and ...
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