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... remember , and can feel still , though I am an old woman , the infinite healing of her kiss for all anguish , great and small . My mother was quite alone in the world , being , as I said , widowed directly after my birth . My father 14 ...
... remember , and can feel still , though I am an old woman , the infinite healing of her kiss for all anguish , great and small . My mother was quite alone in the world , being , as I said , widowed directly after my birth . My father 14 ...
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... remember such dis- tresses ever troubling me . I was no more afflicted to see other girls in sashes while I had none than my moth- er was grieved by the fact that her gowns were of print or muslin when her friends wore silk and satin ...
... remember such dis- tresses ever troubling me . I was no more afflicted to see other girls in sashes while I had none than my moth- er was grieved by the fact that her gowns were of print or muslin when her friends wore silk and satin ...
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... to be neither ignored nor despised , but received thankfully , gladly -- a real blessing , if re- garded and accepted as such in all simplicity and hu- mility . 66 Mammy dear , " I remember once saying , MY MOTHER AND 1 . 17.
... to be neither ignored nor despised , but received thankfully , gladly -- a real blessing , if re- garded and accepted as such in all simplicity and hu- mility . 66 Mammy dear , " I remember once saying , MY MOTHER AND 1 . 17.
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A Love Story Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. 66 Mammy dear , " I remember once saying , as I ran into her arms , “ am I not a very pretty little girl ? Ev- ery body says so . " " Yes , my darling , you are a very pretty little girl , and mammy ...
A Love Story Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. 66 Mammy dear , " I remember once saying , as I ran into her arms , “ am I not a very pretty little girl ? Ev- ery body says so . " " Yes , my darling , you are a very pretty little girl , and mammy ...
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... remember , every body was kind to us . Perhaps it was the deep in- stinct of human nature , that inclines people always to be kind to the widow and orphan ; but most probably it was my mother's own sweet nature , and her remarkable ...
... remember , every body was kind to us . Perhaps it was the deep in- stinct of human nature , that inclines people always to be kind to the widow and orphan ; but most probably it was my mother's own sweet nature , and her remarkable ...
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