Filling up the chinks, Volume 353Frederick Warne and Company, Bedford Street, Covent Garden., 1869 - 203 pages |
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... face of all nature underwent a sudden and startling change , little Stephen's life and future prospects underwent a great change also . His younger brother Benjamin , then only a child three years old , had been sent for early in the ...
... face of all nature underwent a sudden and startling change , little Stephen's life and future prospects underwent a great change also . His younger brother Benjamin , then only a child three years old , had been sent for early in the ...
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... face . Benjamin escaped from any ill effects of this terrible snowstorm , but he seemed to have drawn the vital warmth from the breast of his brother . Poor Stephen shivered and wandered in his mind that night , and fell into a long and ...
... face . Benjamin escaped from any ill effects of this terrible snowstorm , but he seemed to have drawn the vital warmth from the breast of his brother . Poor Stephen shivered and wandered in his mind that night , and fell into a long and ...
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... faces and yellow hands , " he replied , in his slow , grave voice , “ but you have a white , white face , Toddy , and white hands . " " White hands , " repeated Stephen , despondingly . " Ah , Benjie , I wish they were coarse , brown ...
... faces and yellow hands , " he replied , in his slow , grave voice , “ but you have a white , white face , Toddy , and white hands . " " White hands , " repeated Stephen , despondingly . " Ah , Benjie , I wish they were coarse , brown ...
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... face , and saw a boy standing by his side , pale , and evidently frightened , but who bore , strangely enough , a curious resemblance to the figure his fears had led him to expect , but the soft , warm hand that was extended and laid ...
... face , and saw a boy standing by his side , pale , and evidently frightened , but who bore , strangely enough , a curious resemblance to the figure his fears had led him to expect , but the soft , warm hand that was extended and laid ...
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... face up to him , and looked into his blue eyes , " and I think - yes , I am sure - the jewel is there ; I can see it glisten . " Stephen knew Mr. Absalom did not speak lite- rally ; he felt he spoke of something within his mind , and ...
... face up to him , and looked into his blue eyes , " and I think - yes , I am sure - the jewel is there ; I can see it glisten . " Stephen knew Mr. Absalom did not speak lite- rally ; he felt he spoke of something within his mind , and ...
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