The lady Annabetta, by the authoress of 'Constance'. |
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... nature seemed incorporated with selfishness . Whilst she was in this melancholic state - so low , that no abject pauper could endure more mental wretchedness than the bright heiress , the once - accomplished and admired Lady Anna- betta ...
... nature seemed incorporated with selfishness . Whilst she was in this melancholic state - so low , that no abject pauper could endure more mental wretchedness than the bright heiress , the once - accomplished and admired Lady Anna- betta ...
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... nature . Her exclusion from their troubles re- freshed sometimes , and sometimes amused the discordant pair . Her sunny face began to have the effect of occasionally calming Lady Anna- betta's transports of jealous passion , for which ...
... nature . Her exclusion from their troubles re- freshed sometimes , and sometimes amused the discordant pair . Her sunny face began to have the effect of occasionally calming Lady Anna- betta's transports of jealous passion , for which ...
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... nature seemed to have made him so ; but she had undoubtedly given him that callousness with respect to the higher and nobler sentiments which disposes the mind to receive those impressions of caution and of self- ishness which the world ...
... nature seemed to have made him so ; but she had undoubtedly given him that callousness with respect to the higher and nobler sentiments which disposes the mind to receive those impressions of caution and of self- ishness which the world ...
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... natural de- fects , may be , and they are , counteracted in many instances by the careful influence of tender parents , and by the cultivation of gentle affec- tions from the very first dawn of reason . But , in Major de Grey , the ...
... natural de- fects , may be , and they are , counteracted in many instances by the careful influence of tender parents , and by the cultivation of gentle affec- tions from the very first dawn of reason . But , in Major de Grey , the ...
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... nature took to very kindly , for he was an ami- able , meek creature , rather " soft , " as the Der- byshire people say , and one who would never do any body any harm . He was nurtured under such an hereditary veneration for the house ...
... nature took to very kindly , for he was an ami- able , meek creature , rather " soft , " as the Der- byshire people say , and one who would never do any body any harm . He was nurtured under such an hereditary veneration for the house ...
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