Lady Wedderburn's Wish: A Tale of the Crimean War, Том 1Tinsley Brothers, 1870 |
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... story of the War in the Crimea . I may mention that the sorrowful adventure of Major Singleton is no fiction , save so far as the names are concerned , as it happened to a Scottish medical officer during one of our late wars in India ...
... story of the War in the Crimea . I may mention that the sorrowful adventure of Major Singleton is no fiction , save so far as the names are concerned , as it happened to a Scottish medical officer during one of our late wars in India ...
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... story to which her father was fond of referring from time to time , that had won the Tower , among the vulgar , the reputation of being haunted , so that do- mestics were terrified to remain , though the place was within a mile or two ...
... story to which her father was fond of referring from time to time , that had won the Tower , among the vulgar , the reputation of being haunted , so that do- mestics were terrified to remain , though the place was within a mile or two ...
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... story . Two or three dreary days and nights followed his last outburst of mental fury , and a certain revulsion of spirit and corresponding bodily weakness followed it . Then he became more calm and coherent , after some opiates had ...
... story . Two or three dreary days and nights followed his last outburst of mental fury , and a certain revulsion of spirit and corresponding bodily weakness followed it . Then he became more calm and coherent , after some opiates had ...
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... story opens . Cyril did not enter the desolate looking court- yard , lest he might be seen by either of the two female domestics who now composed the sorely reduced household of Oliver Lennox . All was silent in 56 LADY WEDDERBURN'S WISH .
... story opens . Cyril did not enter the desolate looking court- yard , lest he might be seen by either of the two female domestics who now composed the sorely reduced household of Oliver Lennox . All was silent in 56 LADY WEDDERBURN'S WISH .
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... story , there came the swelling notes of a beautiful and tender soprano voice - a girl's - as she sang the grand old Christmas hymn , accom- panying herself upon a piano , which , though a fine one , was nevertheless somewhat old ...
... story , there came the swelling notes of a beautiful and tender soprano voice - a girl's - as she sang the grand old Christmas hymn , accom- panying herself upon a piano , which , though a fine one , was nevertheless somewhat old ...
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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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