Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 76Chatto and Windus, 1891 |
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... glance , and hastening to take it up , said : " Oh , you are looking at my cousin - my dearest friend ; she is a darling , not a beauty , as you may observe , but quite charm- ing . I wish you could see her . I wish she was here ...
... glance , and hastening to take it up , said : " Oh , you are looking at my cousin - my dearest friend ; she is a darling , not a beauty , as you may observe , but quite charm- ing . I wish you could see her . I wish she was here ...
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... glance . He was eyeing his noble beast's hind quarters , his mouth bunched up in an inaudible whistle . " Colonia never could stand in the rain , " he said reflec- tively , as if taking her into his confidence . Mrs. Lancaster sighed ...
... glance . He was eyeing his noble beast's hind quarters , his mouth bunched up in an inaudible whistle . " Colonia never could stand in the rain , " he said reflec- tively , as if taking her into his confidence . Mrs. Lancaster sighed ...
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... glance sufficed to tell , for her eyes were as blue as the waves of the Atlantic that dashed around the rocks some two hundred feet below , and her brown hair looked as though it had caught a sunbeam and kept it captive in its bright ...
... glance sufficed to tell , for her eyes were as blue as the waves of the Atlantic that dashed around the rocks some two hundred feet below , and her brown hair looked as though it had caught a sunbeam and kept it captive in its bright ...
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... glance , would look all the time so straight into his eyes . Then , trans- fixed to the spot by that glance of hers , and hurried into giving a direct answer by her imperative tone , Doctor Berry told her that , although , of course ...
... glance , would look all the time so straight into his eyes . Then , trans- fixed to the spot by that glance of hers , and hurried into giving a direct answer by her imperative tone , Doctor Berry told her that , although , of course ...
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... glance met hers . " My own , dear little Mary ! So good , so affectionate always to her poor old father . " Sometimes , just sometimes , when he made such a speech as this , Mary felt inclined to laugh . She had not at all a warm heart ...
... glance met hers . " My own , dear little Mary ! So good , so affectionate always to her poor old father . " Sometimes , just sometimes , when he made such a speech as this , Mary felt inclined to laugh . She had not at all a warm heart ...
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Page 63 - YOUR grace's displeasure and my imprisonment, are things so strange unto me, as what to write, or what to excuse, I am altogether ignorant. Whereas you send unto me (willing me to confess a truth, and so obtain your favour) by such an one, whom you know to be mine ancient professed enemy. I no sooner received this message by him, than I rightly conceived...
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