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... young Irishman , O'Ryan by name , had ridden into one of those deep red lanes , which intersect the new red sandstone hereabouts , and had so injured his spine as to be a cripple proba- bly for life . Sir Charles had pensioned him with ...
... young Irishman , O'Ryan by name , had ridden into one of those deep red lanes , which intersect the new red sandstone hereabouts , and had so injured his spine as to be a cripple proba- bly for life . Sir Charles had pensioned him with ...
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... young man entirely up to every conceivable sort of country . Such a young man was To Let . And Sir George Herage's advice was , Snap him up on any price ; the more especially as he has ex- pressed to me strongly his intense anxiety to ...
... young man entirely up to every conceivable sort of country . Such a young man was To Let . And Sir George Herage's advice was , Snap him up on any price ; the more especially as he has ex- pressed to me strongly his intense anxiety to ...
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... young man than that Sir George Herage had picked him up at Pau , where he was hunting the hounds during the illness of the huntsman , and had brought him home . That he certainly understood his business in a masterly way , but was ...
... young man than that Sir George Herage had picked him up at Pau , where he was hunting the hounds during the illness of the huntsman , and had brought him home . That he certainly understood his business in a masterly way , but was ...
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... red country , and above and beyond at the blue - brown moor , with young Wysclith raving down in a hundred cascades through a rift in the granite . CHAPTER V. PROFOUND as was Sir Charles's respect for his 8 LEIGHTON COURT .
... red country , and above and beyond at the blue - brown moor , with young Wysclith raving down in a hundred cascades through a rift in the granite . CHAPTER V. PROFOUND as was Sir Charles's respect for his 8 LEIGHTON COURT .
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... young " Fitz " ; but who could snarl or say a bitter thing in the pres- ence of her genial mother , who kissed her , called her a radical , and went to bed ? Laura , you see , did not believe in the grand monde . She believed that the ...
... young " Fitz " ; but who could snarl or say a bitter thing in the pres- ence of her genial mother , who kissed her , called her a radical , and went to bed ? Laura , you see , did not believe in the grand monde . She believed that the ...
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