The Sisters: Or the History of Lucy and Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend. In Two Volumes. ...

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T. Waller, 1754

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Страница 204 - Pox take thefe women — it wou'd have been better for the world, if there had been none of them born ; his mother that's dead never brought me a Shilling, and yet that was my own fault too.
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