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... mother , good morning ! " " You think he ought to come , then , Emily ? " said Sir Charles . " You think he will do ? ” " My dear Charles ! Do ! Such a paragon of a creature . The question is not whether he will do , but what he has ...
... mother , good morning ! " " You think he ought to come , then , Emily ? " said Sir Charles . " You think he will do ? ” " My dear Charles ! Do ! Such a paragon of a creature . The question is not whether he will do , but what he has ...
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... mother ; her face , though like her mother's , was more refined with the refinement of youth ; her face might get a trifle coarser by age , ( who knows ? ) or might be swept by storms of passion ; but at present she was as placid , as ...
... mother ; her face , though like her mother's , was more refined with the refinement of youth ; her face might get a trifle coarser by age , ( who knows ? ) or might be swept by storms of passion ; but at present she was as placid , as ...
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... mother , and for her mother's system . And so Laura had been brought up , not so much by her mother as by her grandmother , in the very straitest mode of Queen Charlottism . And she had taken to the style of thing kindly enough . As a ...
... mother , and for her mother's system . And so Laura had been brought up , not so much by her mother as by her grandmother , in the very straitest mode of Queen Charlottism . And she had taken to the style of thing kindly enough . As a ...
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... mother - in - law , there was one point in Laura's education on which , once for all , he had so coolly and calmly ... mother and her mother talking of this world ; she had been ex- pressly trained , carefully trained , for moving in ...
... mother - in - law , there was one point in Laura's education on which , once for all , he had so coolly and calmly ... mother and her mother talking of this world ; she had been ex- pressly trained , carefully trained , for moving in ...
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... mother talking of the great governors of the country , and the great givers of parties , which were reported in the “ Times ” most familiarly ; heard a great Liberal nobleman talked of as " dear Henry , " and came to the conclusion that ...
... mother talking of the great governors of the country , and the great givers of parties , which were reported in the “ Times ” most familiarly ; heard a great Liberal nobleman talked of as " dear Henry , " and came to the conclusion that ...
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