The Head of the Family: A NovelHarper & brothers, 1871 - 528 pages |
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... . She was too proud for her sta- tion . She frightened all the young farmers away . " " I wish you would tell me the whole story , " said Nin- ian , sitting down and putting on what Tinie called 24 THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY .
... . She was too proud for her sta- tion . She frightened all the young farmers away . " " I wish you would tell me the whole story , " said Nin- ian , sitting down and putting on what Tinie called 24 THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY .
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... tell me she went on much as usual till she was seventeen , when she got a new whim ; grew softened in her manners ; tried to educate herself ; and in a few years improved so , that my John , when he was in the Border country last ...
... tell me she went on much as usual till she was seventeen , when she got a new whim ; grew softened in her manners ; tried to educate herself ; and in a few years improved so , that my John , when he was in the Border country last ...
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... tell you what I will do . I'll go and marry stupid Bailie Duncan , or solemn John Forsyth , or even that handsome , polite Englishman who called the other day when you were out - Mr. — Mr . Ul- verston . " " Heaven forbid ! " muttered ...
... tell you what I will do . I'll go and marry stupid Bailie Duncan , or solemn John Forsyth , or even that handsome , polite Englishman who called the other day when you were out - Mr. — Mr . Ul- verston . " " Heaven forbid ! " muttered ...
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... I have been mad . It was no wonder . " " Why ? " " I can't tell you ; I will not - must not . It is a secret . But I shall hear some day - I know I shall . I fully thought I should - that day I listened to you THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY . 35.
... I have been mad . It was no wonder . " " Why ? " " I can't tell you ; I will not - must not . It is a secret . But I shall hear some day - I know I shall . I fully thought I should - that day I listened to you THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY . 35.
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... tell , but I want to be a child . I want to laugh and be merry . I am so young , and yet life seems so long - so dull . Couldn't you tell me what I must do ? " And with a sorrowful entreaty she looked up at Ninian . There was in him a ...
... tell , but I want to be a child . I want to laugh and be merry . I am so young , and yet life seems so long - so dull . Couldn't you tell me what I must do ? " And with a sorrowful entreaty she looked up at Ninian . There was in him a ...
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Page 246 - ALL people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice ; Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell ; Come ye before him and rejoice.
Page 168 - Work — work — work! It is the iron ploughshare that goes over the field of the heart, rooting up all the pretty grasses, and the beautiful, hurtful weeds that we have taken such pleasure in growing, laying them all under, fair and foul together — making plain, dull-looking arable land for our neighbours to peer at ; until at night-time, down in the deep furrows the angels come and sow.