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... persons now issuing from the hall door of Mrs. Lloyd's pretty residence . That matron herself , with her flutter of feather and flounce , looking very like a maternal hen full of pride in her brood , Dr. Mansell inclined to exclaim with ...
... persons now issuing from the hall door of Mrs. Lloyd's pretty residence . That matron herself , with her flutter of feather and flounce , looking very like a maternal hen full of pride in her brood , Dr. Mansell inclined to exclaim with ...
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... persons are born , and die , who never find out what it is for whom such a thing as luck is not ; Dr. Mansell was not one of them . Others , again , have only to stretch out their hand , and Luck gives it a friendly pressure . Dr ...
... persons are born , and die , who never find out what it is for whom such a thing as luck is not ; Dr. Mansell was not one of them . Others , again , have only to stretch out their hand , and Luck gives it a friendly pressure . Dr ...
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... person who was brave enough to interfere , did so in the best way to secure her own defeat . She accused and denounced the pretender to Miss Lloyd's hand , without arming herself with one proof of the truth of her violent assertions ...
... person who was brave enough to interfere , did so in the best way to secure her own defeat . She accused and denounced the pretender to Miss Lloyd's hand , without arming herself with one proof of the truth of her violent assertions ...
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... person , in robes of office , one hand evidently resting on a beauti- fully - modelled tun , the other flourishing a standard , on which , in high relief , were the words- Gerecht und Beharrlich . The dessert is on the table , the ...
... person , in robes of office , one hand evidently resting on a beauti- fully - modelled tun , the other flourishing a standard , on which , in high relief , were the words- Gerecht und Beharrlich . The dessert is on the table , the ...
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... thinks , as Mr. Bolton sent you so large a sum , that probably he may have kept a still larger for himself . Don't you think so too , mamma ? Now you see the good of having a clever person to advise and act for you 64 VIOLET BANK.
... thinks , as Mr. Bolton sent you so large a sum , that probably he may have kept a still larger for himself . Don't you think so too , mamma ? Now you see the good of having a clever person to advise and act for you 64 VIOLET BANK.
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Page 169 - Experience might have taught you there's many a slip between the cup and the lip ; and the Millers were saying the other day that they had heard Dr.