Littell's Living Age, Volume 192Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1892 - Literature |
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... girl and of the young married woman to the elder lady , sometimes accompanied by the Austrian kiss on the hand - the usual salutation of children to parents , of infe- riors to superiors . The exclusiveness of Vienna society is not ...
... girl and of the young married woman to the elder lady , sometimes accompanied by the Austrian kiss on the hand - the usual salutation of children to parents , of infe- riors to superiors . The exclusiveness of Vienna society is not ...
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... girl . She had been sitting there reading , until the warmth of the day , the silence , and the enervating perfumes of the flowers had sent her to sleep . The book , a slim volume of Goethe's " Lieder , " still lay open where it had ...
... girl . She had been sitting there reading , until the warmth of the day , the silence , and the enervating perfumes of the flowers had sent her to sleep . The book , a slim volume of Goethe's " Lieder , " still lay open where it had ...
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... girl . Now , influenced as ever by Emil , he began to readjust this opinion . Cer- tainly she had a full , white throat- - this was a point about her he remembered ; but he had never felt tempted to touch it in the way Emil described ...
... girl . Now , influenced as ever by Emil , he began to readjust this opinion . Cer- tainly she had a full , white throat- - this was a point about her he remembered ; but he had never felt tempted to touch it in the way Emil described ...
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... girl to leave her own peo- ple and begin life in a new place for my sake . It was folly of me ever to think of it . I will do so no more . But keep my secret , Emil , that I may keep her friend - dence . ship . I would sooner see her ...
... girl to leave her own peo- ple and begin life in a new place for my sake . It was folly of me ever to think of it . I will do so no more . But keep my secret , Emil , that I may keep her friend - dence . ship . I would sooner see her ...
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... girl , " said Emil ; " and if she loves me and she will love me - no power on earth shall stand between us . I have set my whole heart and mind on this thing , and you or the Dittenheims could as easily turn me from it as you could make ...
... girl , " said Emil ; " and if she loves me and she will love me - no power on earth shall stand between us . I have set my whole heart and mind on this thing , and you or the Dittenheims could as easily turn me from it as you could make ...
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