Lady Wedderburn's Wish: A Tale of the Crimean War, Том 1Tinsley Brothers, 1870 |
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... means of the worthy Baronet were far from adequate to his expenses in this aspiring age , and in Willowdean , as in many a less pretentious dwelling , there was too often a struggle to " keep up appearances . " " " Perhaps no part of ...
... means of the worthy Baronet were far from adequate to his expenses in this aspiring age , and in Willowdean , as in many a less pretentious dwelling , there was too often a struggle to " keep up appearances . " " " Perhaps no part of ...
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... means so showy an officer or so fashionable a man , yet he was a lad of very striking and interesting appearance , now in his twenty - second year ; slender , graceful , and gentle - mannered , with nearly regular features , and skin of ...
... means so showy an officer or so fashionable a man , yet he was a lad of very striking and interesting appearance , now in his twenty - second year ; slender , graceful , and gentle - mannered , with nearly regular features , and skin of ...
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... Yes , " said he , rubbing his forehead with an air of perplexity . " Seriously , I hope ? " " About Chesters - oh , yes . " " Tush ! I mean about Gwendoleyne . " " No ; but it seems to me that you 32 LADY WEDDERBURN'S WISH .
... Yes , " said he , rubbing his forehead with an air of perplexity . " Seriously , I hope ? " " About Chesters - oh , yes . " " Tush ! I mean about Gwendoleyne . " " No ; but it seems to me that you 32 LADY WEDDERBURN'S WISH .
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... means could not afford her many luxuries ; but her starched cuffs and collar- made and dressed by her own hands — and the tiny velvet riband around her slender white neck , made it quite a pretty toilette , while , save an old ring or ...
... means could not afford her many luxuries ; but her starched cuffs and collar- made and dressed by her own hands — and the tiny velvet riband around her slender white neck , made it quite a pretty toilette , while , save an old ring or ...
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... to be separated as we are , " she began . " As we are supposed to be , you mean , Mary dear . " " And to meet as we do by stealth , practising such dissimulation . " " It is intensely absurd that I , a Captain 60 LADY WEDDERBURN'S WISH .
... to be separated as we are , " she began . " As we are supposed to be , you mean , Mary dear . " " And to meet as we do by stealth , practising such dissimulation . " " It is intensely absurd that I , a Captain 60 LADY WEDDERBURN'S WISH .
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Alison amid asked Cyril Asloane bay hunter beautiful bheesties bill brother Captain Chesters Champac Chesterhaugh Choultry colour cousin curb chain Cyril Wedderburn Dalmatian dogs dark darling dear dearest Doctor dread Everard Home exclaimed eyes face Fast Castle father fear fellow felt friends Fusileers girl gloomy grief groom Gwendoleyne Gwenny hand handsome happy heard heart heiress hope Horace Ramornie horse hour Indian Jove kiss knew Lady Ernescleugh Lady Wedderburn Lammermuir Lammermuir hills laughing leave lips lonely Lonewoodlee looked Madras Mary Lennox Mary's Merse Miss Lennox Miss M'Caw mother never night Oliver Lennox pale papa passed perhaps poor pretty regiment replied Cyril riding ring Robert Robert Wedderburn Rooke Chesters Scottish secret seemed sighed smile soft Squills strange talk tears tender terrible thicket thought Tower Trayner trembled voice waggonette Wedder Willowdean wont young
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