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Page 71
... beautiful trait in the character of the ideal son - in - law , and to look after which constitutes the noblest possible profession . A place may be everything or nothing . It may possess all the charms of scenery FASHIONABLE SCRAMBLES . 71.
... beautiful trait in the character of the ideal son - in - law , and to look after which constitutes the noblest possible profession . A place may be everything or nothing . It may possess all the charms of scenery FASHIONABLE SCRAMBLES . 71.
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Saturday review. versation , live with agreeable people , or see a beautiful country . He must either shoot away three hundred cartridges each morning , and thus retire to bed with a consciousness of a well - spent day , or he must be ...
Saturday review. versation , live with agreeable people , or see a beautiful country . He must either shoot away three hundred cartridges each morning , and thus retire to bed with a consciousness of a well - spent day , or he must be ...
Page 117
... beautiful simile of Colonel Hanger's , a man might just as well put his arm round an oak - tree with the bark on . She bristles with abnormal angles , which may or may not be caused by what she calls her dress . Yet in spite of her ...
... beautiful simile of Colonel Hanger's , a man might just as well put his arm round an oak - tree with the bark on . She bristles with abnormal angles , which may or may not be caused by what she calls her dress . Yet in spite of her ...
Page 161
... beautiful season of the year for dingy apartments on the second floor , and will return with the proud consciousness of having left two hundred cards ; while the eldest daughter has been twice run away with by the most unmanageable ...
... beautiful season of the year for dingy apartments on the second floor , and will return with the proud consciousness of having left two hundred cards ; while the eldest daughter has been twice run away with by the most unmanageable ...
Page 175
... Her Grace and the housemaid think the same thing " beautiful , " and probably spend the same amount of money upon the object of their admiration . The custom of giving wedding presents as it now exists WEDDINGS AND WEDDING PRESENTS . 175.
... Her Grace and the housemaid think the same thing " beautiful , " and probably spend the same amount of money upon the object of their admiration . The custom of giving wedding presents as it now exists WEDDINGS AND WEDDING PRESENTS . 175.
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