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... faithful woman's life is in itself heroic . You keep to yourselves all opportunity , all the work in the doing of which heroes are made , and then you think us disqualified because we do not keep pace with you ! Yet I would lay my life ...
... faithful woman's life is in itself heroic . You keep to yourselves all opportunity , all the work in the doing of which heroes are made , and then you think us disqualified because we do not keep pace with you ! Yet I would lay my life ...
Page 16
... faithful adherents of the Stuarts will be home- less exiles or lying dead on a bloody field . Widowed mothers and fatherless bairns will be crying piteously for the shelter and bread which have been cruelly torn from them in the vain ...
... faithful adherents of the Stuarts will be home- less exiles or lying dead on a bloody field . Widowed mothers and fatherless bairns will be crying piteously for the shelter and bread which have been cruelly torn from them in the vain ...
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... faithful to you ; through long years of privation I tried hard to soothe your sorrow ; from my childhood all my thoughts and service were given to you and to my sister- " He bowed and retired , casting another sus- picious glance ...
... faithful to you ; through long years of privation I tried hard to soothe your sorrow ; from my childhood all my thoughts and service were given to you and to my sister- " He bowed and retired , casting another sus- picious glance ...
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... faithful as myself . He ventured , from our exile , on a secret mission to England . He was seized by the usurper's spies , submitted to the mockery of a trial , and hung like a common felon . When the tidings came to us , you saw no ...
... faithful as myself . He ventured , from our exile , on a secret mission to England . He was seized by the usurper's spies , submitted to the mockery of a trial , and hung like a common felon . When the tidings came to us , you saw no ...
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... faithful observance of the privacy she evidently desired to maintain , and she might " You will help me most by not sharing it . I will be happier and stronger , Aggie , if I feel that you are safe . " " But what is the danger - what is ...
... faithful observance of the privacy she evidently desired to maintain , and she might " You will help me most by not sharing it . I will be happier and stronger , Aggie , if I feel that you are safe . " " But what is the danger - what is ...
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