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if he fails in all the ship dies � a prisoner to the set of the sea � a gift to the nearest enemy and as i have seen him he is infinitely patient and however it might have been in the old days when men clung to sticks and strings and the generation bred to pole know that he is the king pin of their system our assistant...
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acre every eighteen months no in all truth the house of pride ford was an heroic figure fit so ford thought privately to stand beside the statue of i in front of the building ford was gone but he his son carried on the good work at least as if not as he turned his eyes back to the what was the difference he asked himse...
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again and the moment shot away into the depths of the past to mingle with all the lost that are drowned there hard times i removing her eyes she eat so long looking silently toward the town that he said at length are you consulting the chimneys of the works there seems to be nothing there but languid and monotonous smo...
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a manner that his thoughts were elsewhere had nearly traversed the hall when two persons before him caught his attention one of these a gentleman in elegant attire carried in his hand a cane which he in a manner as he on the other an crouching figure listened to what he said � at times throwing in a humble word himself...
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� an then i could ha read i the books like fun an my head cool empty she s fine an ble now my old mother is she her baked meat an as often as she likes for i m so fuu o money i must a wife to spend it for me but it s a wife is � and t like her uncle who regarded himself as a man since he had retired from was beginning ...
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arthur has reason to be yery god bless his wife and him wept as she tried to thank him he reassured her took her hand as it lay with the trembling roses in it on his arm took the roses from it and put it to his lips at that time it seemed to him he first finally resigned the dying hope that had in nobody s heart so muc...
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town he knew that his small party would soon be broken and in the open in the town however the were far from being in so good a posture it was as dick had said the night guard had already their harness the rest were still hanging � all unprepared for battle � about their quarters and in the whole of there were not perh...
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half a dozen more ropes and danced over the deck like an at ebb tide one eye on tom ver good ver good done said after supper i show you a little i make with all her ropes so we shall learn class fer � a passenger said dan he s jest allowed you be your salt maybe tore you re s a heap fer i learn you more our next watch ...
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past and of all the future may have in store for me but is there no in is there no physician there will he not take me by the hand and whisper be of good cheer thy sins are forgiven thee will he not heal thy wounds by pouring into them the oil of consolation he has promised to do this � yea much more than this and will...
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and season when i was dear that was better than p n t the plain honest workings life to t waa b to he ashamed me sufficient means of self � � ti respect and fa at those times i expectations that mj to dear old joe and the was gone and that i was growing up in a fair way to be partners with joe and to keep company with ...
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this poor man with a polite smile hoping he would feel very kindly toward her as a generous person that s the only money i ve got she said the mill on tub thank yon little miss said the man in a less respectful and grateful tone than anticipated and she even observed that he smiled and winked at his companion she walke...
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on board an but though she had seen all the members of the family she had not yet heard all the noise they could make another quarter of an hour brought her a great deal more william was soon calling out from the landing place of the second story for his mother and for he was in distress for something that he had left ...
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way bv a minor prophet nor dreaming of the quite at the service of posterity to be feared though that the much given to and nuts has confessed boys will be boys may write a for a think s was an irish bull a who up fox and a chief upon change boys will be but dogs will all be moral with suited to diet the will fade from...
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as he did such a purport fulfilled as had taken him away be would have expected any thing rather than a look of and words of simple pleasant meaning it was to set his heart in a glow and to bring him home in the state for feeling the full value of the other joyful at hand s promotion with all its particulars he was soo...
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he looked self conscious his heart he was still more agitated when the were counted and said it s a pleasure to that will be the next assistant wi elder i know of no man who stands more for common sense and enterprise than good old george come on let s give him our best long yell as they a hundred men crushed in to sla...
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his arm and they went along silently together as true comrades do he saw that she was and to question her oh i ve been talking to her she said at last i wish i hadn t and yet it is best to be reminded of things i hope she was civil yes i � i can t help liking her � just a little bit she s not an nature and i am so glad...
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immense new there a old country villa then a of black ditch sparkling rank field richly cultivated kitchen garden brick arch canal and disorder of and fog as if the child had given the table a kick and gone to sleep but even among school school teachers and school all according to pattern and all in the light of the go...
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natured and well meaning even if he was a lawyer he might explain to very delicately just how the family felt and how much stood to lose if he continued to maintain his connection with her if had married o would find it out a liberal provision would be made for her � say fifty or one hundred thousand or even one hundre...
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already in his figure with all the surroundings � lamps his facility interesting me deeply i asked the young lady next me if she knew who he was she could not tell me at four o clock there was a general from the we to a neighbouring to drink beer and as we stooped of a young man under an the young man was his name spok...
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ood i have shaken off the of last night and am more like what father used to tell me to be when i was a of a girl a cheerful as right as a though to be sure i do not know what being as right as a is any more than i did then last night it is true there were circumstances that might have been urged for a week it had been...
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why m joined so in this message to miss but i accepted hi statement with a bow where is your brother i asked is he on the steamer with you no he answered with a start why do you ask that perhaps it was the knowledge that she i indicated miss with a motion of my head would rather not see him and m looked at each other w...
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plainly saw not to be convinced she short and horror strode for she had never before so seen her gentle husband ao of noble power lo fall of inward holy wrath i master now often dreamed and delayed whole days sat down row np spoke to himself drew with his stick on tne sand or began to make an eye or a nose with buck ch...
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and the select audience forgot that it was select and became enthusiastic and when the fair singer reappeared were upon her had only a but as it fell at her feet miss stooped and picked it up and held it in her hand as she repeated her song and then it was all over and the crush and tumult of departure began made his w...
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lie alas my treasure s gone why do i stay the english poets he was my friend the truest friend on earth a strong and mighty influence join d our birth nor did we envy the most sounding name by friendship n of old to fame none but his brethren he and sisters knew whom the kind youth d to me and ev n in that we did agree...
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look forward to and the wet windy weather which swept the contributed to her the by only event of the day seemed to be her father s departure in the morning immediately after breakfast he tied up his music in a brown paper parcel and put his into its case he spoke of missing his train and from the windows of the music ...
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problem it did not take long i sprang my feet now i have it cried i ought to make the tackle the p nt of balance and what we learn of this will serve us with everything else we have to aboard once again i all my work by lowering the mast e water but i the point of balance vi hi a the ot the mast came of the butt looked...
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sobbing one night last year in the chase and it mid ha gone hard wi a certain party if folks had come along well a little more or a little less twas a thousand that it should have happened to she of all others but tis always the the plain ones be as safe as � hey the speaker turned to one of the group who certainly was...
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heart was he too like the would he kill other men who had families like and frank and johnson had killed t was he too a wild beast a dog that would over a bone she sighed life was a strange puzzle perhaps was right in her cruel statement of the terms of existence by ic the valley op the moon what of it laughed harshly ...
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mistaken for me and he has some taste in dress though he gets if i am too long away fi om him i warrant you that i find a in his coat to morrow we were all seated round the fire by this time for the evening had turned chilly the lamp was lighted and so also was my father s pipe i suppose said he that this is your first...
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jane to return with them to and had some difficulty in getting a refusal accepted as they thought too highly of their own kindness and situation to suppose the o� could appear in less advantageous light to anybody else elizabeth gave them her interest though evidently against her own in privately urging to go you do no...
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but her late agitation had made her absent minded i came back by you know said mr not as if any intention to arrest her departure but apparently from his tendency to say what he had said before this of human speech was exhibited in mr i there and saw s library and that kind of thing there s a sharp air wont you sit dow...
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the face is a confused of features but composed of sharply defined and features whose eye are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to and take glances on this side and on that but they must turn the whole head the manners of that period are plain and fierce the reverence exhibited is for personal qualiti...
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up with him so did at my side i can t quite understand the house seems to have been violently entered when joe was out supposed by somebody has been attacked and hurt we were running too fast to admit of more being said � we made no stop until we got into our kitchen it was of people the whole village was there or in t...
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the sound when a gale came which lasted four days and nights and which would have done for poor old in half the time our touch with the great nation not having much improved our four and twenty hours later and i should only have been a gallant captain in a small paragraph at one corner of the newspapers and being lost ...
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after fifteen hours work sat down to read mere about men and women more or less like themselves and about children more or less like their own they took de foe to their instead of and seemed to be on the whole more comforted by by mr was for ever working in print and out of print at this eccentric sum and he never coul...
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endure it i am an old man and now i want to enjoy myself in my own way and my desire is to get through the last years of my life with you you can do what you please ask here you please give me a few hours of your time when i am particularly busy with my and above all let us be alone sometimes spring days after dinner s...
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solemn treaty and compact between them that mr should be mute upon the subject of his love the question then was whether could trust mr and saying with a smile oh yes with whole heart it became important to find out where mr lived this didn t know and the captain had forgotten and the captain was telling walter in the ...
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through the glad silence with hope and pleasure they were alone together once again every object was bright and fresh nothing reminded them otherwise than by contrast of the monotony and they had left behind church towers and and dark at other times now shone and dazzled in the sun each humble nook and comer rejoiced i...
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put in this class he had no idea in advance of his age in all but courage and military skill he appears behind his times no noble thought no lofty sentiment seems to have inspired him none such breathes in his words or deeds mr says he was not a mere but we see nothing else that can be said to distinguish him from the ...
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to one merely to ease bis conscience by praying there which of these two do you think would mercy sooner ay you think sir you have me now but vm not so easy as that comes to do you forget so soon an too or may be yer � eh � well who knows � an if you should � bud in respect iv what you me at any rate in the name of goo...
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endurance upon herself and takes refuge in or certain it is that when the last few searching yet illuminated moments of his interview with his wife were over philip fell into a condition of singular mental he was still conscious it is true of being bowed down by the weight of a heavy but his perception of the extent of...
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had received had his soul and he was a willing servant ready for a smile from his m to perform with barbarous fidelity the duties of his office seizing by the arm he pulled off his shirt and led him to the tree the last ray of hope had expired in the soul of his blood at the thought of being by watch and wait oe whippe...
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more let him go i ll give you twenty five cents if you will the who had to open his heart very wide to make this liberal offer of of fortune ok he is going to jail if there is such an institution in these parts replied til give you fifty cents if you ll let him go pleaded mr if you would give me fifty thousand dollars ...
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she need not hint at if she does not want to be hinted at and besides i won t s trunk she steal mamma s cape indeed i i would trust her with all the gold in the world why don t you your own trunk blushed deeply and said she had rather not threw up both hands and looking at mrs exclaimed mon est il possible no it is not...
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fire � his features brought out into full relief by the flickering shadows � his complexion brightened by the glowing light and his full and well turned neck all appeared to the best possible advantage his mother leaned over him with an expression of great fondness and pleasure in her countenance and then kissed his fo...
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glowing deserts of africa shining in silvery and arid desolation the broad green belt of the atlantic now itself and then appears the deeper green of this immense luxuriant forest america with the achievements of three centuries of advancing struggling civilization barely to dot its eastern border and hardly in extent ...
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season his majesty king george the third was present with all the and royal while upwards of three of the general nobility and other persons of distinction were also in the town at the time carriages and other were arriving every minute from london and elsewhere and when among the rest a shabby stage coach came in by a...
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now taken such a shape with him as could not long continue if improvement was not to be looked for nature could only for a limited time maintain this dark and warfare against the world and itself we are not informed whether any continuance of years was at this period probable for burns whether his death is to be looked...
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pan was grating horribly on my nerves i not collect ray thoughts clutching the if for support � and i confess the with � it put my teeth on edge � i d a hot cooking range to the offending it and it securely into the coal box the cook grinned at my exhibition of nerves and into my band a steaming with an ere this ll fc ...
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to you dearest in all sincerity old pretty by this time had looked round puzzled and seeing two people crouching under her where by custom there should have been only one lifted her hind she is she doesn t know what we mean � she ll kick over the milk exclaimed gently striving to free herself her eyes concerned with th...
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she and with great interest and anxiety set forth beside him down the path on the alert for any f or a little captive maid they went out at the gate in the high fence the master remembered where to find the key and he seemed in excellent spirits the side street led them down the hill to father s house but when they rea...
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the professor of divinity as well as to a valued friend a fellow of and went thither on the last day of march i was the guest of my friend in was close upon that college and i lived on college my new friends showed me their the library the gallery hall and the rest i saw several faithful young men some of them in the m...
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a smile sometimes at his ways it was soothing to them to have a comrade from whom nothing was to be feared from the day that they left the telegraph wire behind them at the man who was mounted upon a thirteen four was delivered over into the hands of the owners of the two that ever shot down the ground the three had di...
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and to her put up half articulate prayers for mercy cease said the high priest she is the minister who judges and the sword that strikes i am the ears and the voice speak and tell me � were you about to cast those men whom you were commanded to receive into yonder fire because they saved the victim of your and killed t...
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the exterior wall of this great church everywhere there were empty where statues had been thrown down and here and there a statue still lingered in its and over the chief entrance and extending across the whole breadth of the building was a row of angels personages and kings in stone being much by the moist english atm...
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are three different one has over its door � british office another is for and a third for g eat promises are made to persons proposing to such as a free passage to the west indies wages of from seventy five cents to a dollar per day and permission to when they choose very few however of those who have been long residen...
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a serious beat of admiration that was honey to the girl and through her to me it seemed to wipe us clean of all james more s and the next moment he was just himself again and now by your leave my said he this is a very but be a thing nearer to the gallows than he s caring for and i think this is a grand place to be lea...
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these poor savages wonderfully improved they acquired a thousand wants of which they had before been ignorant and as he has most y sources of happiness who has most wants to be gratified they were rendered a much happier race of beings but the most important branch of civilization and which has most been by the zealous...
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product of the united f t tes for the year e � reached a total of short tons and a valued at the mines before any expenses for at the product included short tons of coal and other worth and short tons of and at the value of all of a ton at the mines the of coal was cents a short ton at the in the total product d short ...
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pile brows around the locks of youth were woven have borne the fatal ordeal and betrayed no sign of shrinking from the fiery blast and voices whose sweet tones were once the natural of happiness and love have been ib to herself the writer mast here in of the poetry of religion how forcibly she is � with what some would...
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which the of the land were wont to take pride is fully established by the allusions to it that abound in the many legends yet in existence composed in honor of of the lion heart these preserve the names of the and speak of them aa being valued at sums that allowing for the difference in the worth of money quite exceed ...
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home she can t go you d never know her we ll have to put her in an asylum something in his voice made look at him he met his gaze they re getting ready to do it� that man and the preacher but i don t mean em to have anything more to do with her they ve done their worst now let em keep away from her nodded his acquiesce...
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as to meet danger face to face and take it by the beard determined therefore to put an end to all these petty on the borders he wrote two or three letters to the grand council which though neither ia bad latin nor yet by about wolves and and op yet had more effect than all the elaborate and of his learned put together ...
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falls however and the in the are then in full bloom and sing songs from one end of the range to the other of course the snow on the lower of the rivers is first melted then that on the higher fountains most exposed to sunshine and about a month later the cooler shadowy fountains send down their treasures thus allowing ...
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unnecessary it really seems very extravagant i said oh well we don t come to a s every day any of us said philip easily but not the pink pearl i bar the pink pearl not pearls of any kind a self made you ought to have your birthday stone whatever that is my birthday happened to be the month of so philip insisted on buyi...
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conferred be was the passion of the moment was too strong foi him but sometimes ins mere were in intensity passions and his passions while they lasted of madness he was a because he had some taste that way hut chiefly because he regular work of any sort he had no real love for hia art and not the least touch of poetic ...
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stop a moment said mr excessively red in the face i told you the last time you were here with a grievance that you had better turn about and come out of that and i also told you if you remember that i was up to the gold spoon look out i were not up to t sir i do assure yo now it s clear to me said mr that you are one o...
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had i only foreseen � what a fool i was i ought to have known better i have had nothing but bad luck all my life nothing it is perfectly wonderful the bad luck have had no matter what i did nothing seemed to go right i if you had gone to see that fellow without me it would have turned out differently but i don t see ho...
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already made and could not but hope that the though she had told no for tune might be proved to have made s about a fortnight after the alarm they came to a sufficient explanation and quite was not thinking of it at the moment which made the information she received more valuable she merely said in the course of some t...
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is found to be the wife of a man who certainly seems to be worse off than i he had the prior claim said she what you knew him at that time yes yes please say no more she implored whatever my errors i have paid for them during the last five years the heart of was subject to sudden he was kind to a fault i am sorry from ...
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comes to the from the to find its way down all the little and streams into the brook and that consequently the water in the brook will be highest a short time after the rain is over in one place the water had the banks of the brook and had spread all about under the trees which thus seemed to be growing out of a pond t...
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a wall before us to change our direction and instead of proceeding parallel to the to strike suddenly towards it � we had now a close view of some of the obstacles which bar the approach to the of on which we were about to enter seemed to me absolutely the only relief to the white snow and ice before us was an occasion...
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of an police j c � a took us up four flights of st rs to i that we might have a d of the whole theatre this row bears no resemblance to our galleries or to those of the english theatres the box we entered was one of several called de so they are fitted up as s for clubs of gentlemen with � tables and and are veil lifte...
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who s who and i said to myself she was bom in cambridge and he is twenty car old and then i said twenty seven years old and free and fancy free but how did i know she was fancy free and the pang of new bom jealousy put all incredulity to flight there was no doubt about it i was jealous therefore i loved and the woman i...
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given her by st john of the handsome and the shown by her little page to die rather than see her after failing to deliver her letter joined with her own appearance mark her very well the following is a prose sketch of her as seen in common life sir s portrait of of she is of too high a mind and dignity not only to seek...
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fast asleep but within the limits of the clearing h k there was not a single blade of green � nothing m but the trampled earth h the book the moonlight showed it all iron gray except where some stood upon it and their shadows were black little looked holding his breath with his eyes starting out of his head and as he l...
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tale and when she told of and dropped the pearl into s hand even she was reconciled to the reality of her mother in law in the said you will sell the pearl to for five thousand french the house objected he will build the house answered he says it will cost four thousand french also will he give one thousand french in c...
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t f ends � we refer to the meat preparation of c ale bo den and the preserved fruits of vm smith of ny tl e is now an approved food having received a prize at the london exhibition it is formed by boiling down the strong beef of and mixing into the strong beef tea thus formed a certain proportion of the finest flour fo...
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� � you were as flowers now withered � so these lets shall which we upon you among the beautiful and simple hearted customs of rural life which still linger in some parts of england are those of flowers before the and planting them at the graves of departed friends these it is said are the remains of some of the rites ...
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she murmured almost all snow and darkness at the chapter le oil n a re il a un de vent old ballad the next morning dawned cold and dismal a dense yellow fog hung over the metropolis like a pall � the street lamps were lighted but their scarcely the and the chill of the snow air penetrated into the warmest rooms and mad...
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wistfully as at some young goddess of youth and health and to one she gave a bright morning greeting to another money perhaps to others hope � who the lovely can tell presently she turned out of the but lately opened gates and stood hesitating in garden miss said the policeman she addressed straight down through and sq...
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not what she expected she is disappointed and becomes complaining of woman s lot or discouraged and crushed by it she thinks him perfect his prejudices adds them to her early stock and ever them with his arguments where she from him in taste and habits she believes herself in the wrong and him in the right and life in ...
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him again and ho stood up holding by the mantel shelf as he pressed his cold hair down with a hand that shook as if it were i she was coming to him but he stretched out his arm to stop her no i don t please don t i let me see thee by the bed let me see thee a so good and so let me see thee as i see thee when i in i can...
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along the snow while laughed till the tears ran down his face there followed days and days of the cruel whip that like the wind over ice and his companions all bit him because he did not know his work and the harness him and he was not allowed to sleep with any more but had to take the in the passage it was a sad time ...
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of and nineteenth street line if he could get that if he had that he say to and his friends once they had this line here now why not let me run this line of which i am part owner with you in connection with my the own after that so many things could be done is such a subtle thing suddenly an idea occurred to him say ge...
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where i looked forward to going � no you cannot expect me to go there would not argue upon the propriety of such feelings she only endeavored to them by working on others and represented it therefore as a measure which would fix the time of her returning to that dear mother whom she so much wished to see in a more elig...
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what was the good of my telling you as a piece of news something which you knew already but i didn t know did you not she shut her eyes as he stood there with his arm around her so he was going to keep the farce up to the very end she felt like a woman in a as if her head was going surely she had not dreamed that she s...
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by his sympathies and his tender counsel soothe the mind and cause sadness to give place to joy if ever there was one man of whom it could be said with greater truth than of another that he could rejoice with those that rejoiced and weep with those that wept that man was edward his thoughts and sympathies and affection...
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known as s creek runs through the city in two branches and you find it in odd places walled in closely by the buildings hung over by little and the like of which i did not see again until i reached there were in the sky as i noticed when i came out of the railway station i was charmed with winding streets and a general...
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there are great insane but though crowded they are insufficient so there is given over to the worst cases now and then some poor insane creature comes to his senses in those awful and in wondering joy escapes from the land and back to his home but most cases are they just suffer along poor devils their former life quit...
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ye said he staring at me over his spectacles it s to save another said i and to redeem my word what would be more good than that do ye no mind the scripture and you with the book upon your lap shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world ay said he that s grand for you but where do i come in i have my word to redee...
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strand and the roar of the were like the same hark to it the ebb tide now and you can hear the and the rolling and the streets and then at last i would look about and there was the old place and no mistake with the statues in the square and st martin s in the fields and the and the and the and i can t tell you what i f...
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said now you ll feel a lot better i saw there was something wrong with you from the start which needed breaking up now suppose you quit inadequate inventions and just tell the truth unfortunately i have done so already mr said the lady paused a moment her face full of inquiry and doubt honest the term was not familiar ...
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and drawn by oxen life seems more and quiet in holland than elsewhere and for this reason i like holland and i think i shall always remember this street the great professor lives in a little house at the end of it with one servant and when we went to see him i watched her in the and i thought of the pictures we had see...
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goose for my to make food acceptable to their be a at once no but these are places than and i should think your soul would revolt at thb � i swung my ann in a half are not my he said half smiling well admit and i knew all by s along that this was the there are other � brethren of nearer degree n he ejaculated i among m...
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t know i promised of course and we kissed one another over and over again and i soon fell fast asleep it seems to me at this distance of time as if it were the next day when the striking and adventurous proposition i am about to mention but it was probably about two months afterwards we were sitting as before one eveni...
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a quarter of a pound of butter the same quantity of � mix with a quarter of a pound of cakes for d tea brown sugar a of a couple of table of and a of flour a couple of tea of in a wine glass of milk and strain it into the cake � add sufficient flour to enable you to roll it out very thin cut it into all cakes and them ...
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the trade a s such of our readers not without as the have it may possibly be aware from the repeated occasions in which they have their attention called to the various st they in their walks when accompanied by their sweet young olive branches is carried on to a large extent in this city as nearly three hundred houses ...
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goes to an occasional party at the but at the opera and the theatre and at the small intimate parties of and her friends the darling of is not visible however she has s her little she knows the well and can talk about them which puts her quite on a level with them in the estimation of her own set she rules in the lower...
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fired with the rest and then down another charge as fast as i could staring out through the smoke in front of me where i could see some long thin thing which slowly backwards and forwards a sounded for us to cease firing and a of wind came to clear the curtain from in front of us and then we could see what had happened...
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