The man without a profession1844 |
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... opportunity to bring with him a very large and very ugly dog , won at a raffle , and which was the more prized as being an animal forbidden to the scholars by the rules of the college . In addition to this com- panion , the vehicle was ...
... opportunity to bring with him a very large and very ugly dog , won at a raffle , and which was the more prized as being an animal forbidden to the scholars by the rules of the college . In addition to this com- panion , the vehicle was ...
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... opportunity to visit Coverley Hall , in order that he might have the pleasure of introducing her to the raven , who was , as he averred with much energy , without any exception , the most curious and remarkable bird ever known , and ...
... opportunity to visit Coverley Hall , in order that he might have the pleasure of introducing her to the raven , who was , as he averred with much energy , without any exception , the most curious and remarkable bird ever known , and ...
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... opportunity to stand out for their market , and whose votes decided a closely contested struggle . This outlay , and the necessity of making good his liabilities in the speculations into which he had rashly entered , compelled him to ...
... opportunity to stand out for their market , and whose votes decided a closely contested struggle . This outlay , and the necessity of making good his liabilities in the speculations into which he had rashly entered , compelled him to ...
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... opportunities of intimacy which Clara had enjoyed might have been turned to ad- vantage . It was with these thoughts , and with a mother's instinctive apprehension of the desirableness of depreciating rival preten- sions , that she ...
... opportunities of intimacy which Clara had enjoyed might have been turned to ad- vantage . It was with these thoughts , and with a mother's instinctive apprehension of the desirableness of depreciating rival preten- sions , that she ...
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... opportunity , like a skilful general , she determined to follow up the first success . " Miss Lesley , as I was saying - poor girl- looks very delicate , and I have generally ob- served that light eyes are an accompaniment of weak ...
... opportunity , like a skilful general , she determined to follow up the first success . " Miss Lesley , as I was saying - poor girl- looks very delicate , and I have generally ob- served that light eyes are an accompaniment of weak ...
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