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... Elspie , her Scotch nurse , was a great crony of Mrs. Squire , both being advanced Calvinists . Laura would just ... Elspie did look very like a witch indeed ! C6 Elspie , dear , " she said , " 24 LEIGHTON COURT . CHAPTER XI. ...
... Elspie , her Scotch nurse , was a great crony of Mrs. Squire , both being advanced Calvinists . Laura would just ... Elspie did look very like a witch indeed ! C6 Elspie , dear , " she said , " 24 LEIGHTON COURT . CHAPTER XI. ...
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... Elspie's Highland eyes . She tattled on incessantly . It was a beautiful country , she said , to the blinded eyes of those who had never seen solitary Rannoch and lonely , majestic Schehallion . God had left the 3 people here to wax fat ...
... Elspie's Highland eyes . She tattled on incessantly . It was a beautiful country , she said , to the blinded eyes of those who had never seen solitary Rannoch and lonely , majestic Schehallion . God had left the 3 people here to wax fat ...
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... Elspie's incantation , it was only a natural exclamation . If she had said , " your twa dizzen hoodies , " it would ... Elspie immediately prepared for going up stairs in ex- treme wrath . The voice , as far as they could hear it , was ...
... Elspie's incantation , it was only a natural exclamation . If she had said , " your twa dizzen hoodies , " it would ... Elspie immediately prepared for going up stairs in ex- treme wrath . The voice , as far as they could hear it , was ...
Page 73
... Elspie , her nurse , the most romantic and superstitious old trot in the three kingdoms . And I must , sooner or later , come en visage with my reader about another matter . Let us get it over , and let the reader make the worst of it ...
... Elspie , her nurse , the most romantic and superstitious old trot in the three kingdoms . And I must , sooner or later , come en visage with my reader about another matter . Let us get it over , and let the reader make the worst of it ...
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... Elspie the nurse , since a great quarrel in the housekeeper's room , which has nothing to do with this story . answered the bell with wonderful alacrity , and before Sir Charles had time to deliver his message , delivered her own : to ...
... Elspie the nurse , since a great quarrel in the housekeeper's room , which has nothing to do with this story . answered the bell with wonderful alacrity , and before Sir Charles had time to deliver his message , delivered her own : to ...
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