Lady Wedderburn's Wish: A Tale of the Crimean War, Том 1Tinsley Brothers, 1870 |
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... never were any , so she had long since ceased even to affect that one might come . " One letter for decapitating an egg . Horace , " said Cyril , while " Well , old fellow , what says your despatch - ' to amount of account rendered ...
... never were any , so she had long since ceased even to affect that one might come . " One letter for decapitating an egg . Horace , " said Cyril , while " Well , old fellow , what says your despatch - ' to amount of account rendered ...
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... never wore gloves - the whip , the gun , the rod , or the weeder , seldom being out of them - were well shaped and aris- tocratic in form , while his costume - a suit of coarse grey tweed and long brown leather leg- gings , as he sat at ...
... never wore gloves - the whip , the gun , the rod , or the weeder , seldom being out of them - were well shaped and aris- tocratic in form , while his costume - a suit of coarse grey tweed and long brown leather leg- gings , as he sat at ...
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... never seen , though they had heard so much of this rich Indian uncle , who yearly sent home such magnificent and graceful ( because suitable ) presents to the family . He had been a kind of myth to all , save Sir John ; so personally ...
... never seen , though they had heard so much of this rich Indian uncle , who yearly sent home such magnificent and graceful ( because suitable ) presents to the family . He had been a kind of myth to all , save Sir John ; so personally ...
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... never been able to do , viz . , to beat his acquaintance Chesters at cards or billiards , " and thereby hangs a tale . " Few men among those distinguished Fusileers had been more petted , spoiled , fallen - in - love - with , or so ...
... never been able to do , viz . , to beat his acquaintance Chesters at cards or billiards , " and thereby hangs a tale . " Few men among those distinguished Fusileers had been more petted , spoiled , fallen - in - love - with , or so ...
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... - burn , who was very fastidious in his own toilette , disliked this style of dress intensely , and even when shooting or fishing never adopted it . His new horse - a fine bay hunter , with 18 LADY WEDDERBURN'S WISH .
... - burn , who was very fastidious in his own toilette , disliked this style of dress intensely , and even when shooting or fishing never adopted it . His new horse - a fine bay hunter , with 18 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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