Filling up the chinks, Volume 353Frederick Warne and Company, Bedford Street, Covent Garden., 1869 - 203 pages |
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... mother , who lived some way beyond the neigh- bouring common , a wild gorse tract more than two miles in extent ; and as the child ought to be back before nightfall , what more trusty guardian could they select to take charge of him ...
... mother , who lived some way beyond the neigh- bouring common , a wild gorse tract more than two miles in extent ; and as the child ought to be back before nightfall , what more trusty guardian could they select to take charge of him ...
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... mother's heart , but which became a source of laughter to his less feeling companions . And it was out of is pitiful infirmity , and his slow and creeping gait as he walked about the house , that the likeness 4 Filling up the Chinks .
... mother's heart , but which became a source of laughter to his less feeling companions . And it was out of is pitiful infirmity , and his slow and creeping gait as he walked about the house , that the likeness 4 Filling up the Chinks .
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... mother , and his elder bro ther , Mark , were all away at work in the great needle manufactory , whose furnace chimneys dark- ened the air always , and kept the sun from bright- ening up the cottage kitchen . Stephen was not strong ...
... mother , and his elder bro ther , Mark , were all away at work in the great needle manufactory , whose furnace chimneys dark- ened the air always , and kept the sun from bright- ening up the cottage kitchen . Stephen was not strong ...
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... mother as I used to do ; " and presently he added , abruptly , with a kind of strange sigh , " Which would you rather be called , a ' Toad ' or a ' Vulture , ' Benjie ? " " I don't know what a vulture is . " " It's a worse kind of an ...
... mother as I used to do ; " and presently he added , abruptly , with a kind of strange sigh , " Which would you rather be called , a ' Toad ' or a ' Vulture , ' Benjie ? " " I don't know what a vulture is . " " It's a worse kind of an ...
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... mother will let me , and ask him what to do . " Stephen set Benjamin down on the floor as he uttered this new - formed resolution , for it was time to prepare the table for supper . CHAPTER II . THE VULTURE'S CAGE . WITHOUT doubt there ...
... mother will let me , and ask him what to do . " Stephen set Benjamin down on the floor as he uttered this new - formed resolution , for it was time to prepare the table for supper . CHAPTER II . THE VULTURE'S CAGE . WITHOUT doubt there ...
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