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... daughter here , in the house of the leal old Presbyterian shepherd , while he himself followed his high vocation , in peril and fears , as he could . On the previous morning his daughter had received a message from him , CALEB FIELD . 21.
... daughter here , in the house of the leal old Presbyterian shepherd , while he himself followed his high vocation , in peril and fears , as he could . On the previous morning his daughter had received a message from him , CALEB FIELD . 21.
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... daughter's arm within his own , the stranger turned into a lonely ravine of those hills where human footstep seldom passed . He was a tall , athletic man , spare and strong , such an one as you would choose from a crowd to endure and do ...
... daughter's arm within his own , the stranger turned into a lonely ravine of those hills where human footstep seldom passed . He was a tall , athletic man , spare and strong , such an one as you would choose from a crowd to endure and do ...
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... daughter were alone in the narrow pass of the hills . " Edith , ” said the minister , gravely , " I have somewhat to say to you . " He paused . He had been in great haste to make the communication , whatever it was , and yet he ...
... daughter were alone in the narrow pass of the hills . " Edith , ” said the minister , gravely , " I have somewhat to say to you . " He paused . He had been in great haste to make the communication , whatever it was , and yet he ...
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... daughter , and then , lifting his hat reverently from his head , gazed with a yearning , solemn look upward into the sky - the soft , balmy , spring sky , serene and calm and beautiful , undimmed by all those angry vapors , which ...
... daughter , and then , lifting his hat reverently from his head , gazed with a yearning , solemn look upward into the sky - the soft , balmy , spring sky , serene and calm and beautiful , undimmed by all those angry vapors , which ...
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... daughter to the window , and pointing to where an hostler led the animal about , made a last attempt to dissuade her from accompanying him . Edith said nothing in return : she only slid her hand through her father's arm , and holding by ...
... daughter to the window , and pointing to where an hostler led the animal about , made a last attempt to dissuade her from accompanying him . Edith said nothing in return : she only slid her hand through her father's arm , and holding by ...
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Page 19 - So placed, — to be shut out from all the world ! Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn ; With rocks encompassed, save that to the south Was one small opening, where a heath-clad ridge Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close. A quiet treeless nook, with two green fields, A liquid pool, that glittered in the sun, And one bare dwelling ; one abode, no more...
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