Recollections of a HousekeeperHarper & Brothers, 1834 - 155 páginas |
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... neighbour , while books and knick - knacks , as drawing - room luxuries , were unknown . To amuse the tedious hours of my husband's absence , I went into the kitchen , and offered to assist Nancy in making a pudding . My overtures were ...
... neighbour , while books and knick - knacks , as drawing - room luxuries , were unknown . To amuse the tedious hours of my husband's absence , I went into the kitchen , and offered to assist Nancy in making a pudding . My overtures were ...
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... neighbour to say that I was afeard she wouldn't stand it . Our neighbour sent back she daresn't leave her baby , who was sick , but a young man what was boarding there , a sailor named Curry , a very decent person , would come and watch ...
... neighbour to say that I was afeard she wouldn't stand it . Our neighbour sent back she daresn't leave her baby , who was sick , but a young man what was boarding there , a sailor named Curry , a very decent person , would come and watch ...
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... neighbours soon came in , and she was decently laid out . Curry left twenty dollars to pay expenses . I was the only mourner at her funeral , and I cried enough for a hundred ; and it seemed to me , the night after the funeral , that I ...
... neighbours soon came in , and she was decently laid out . Curry left twenty dollars to pay expenses . I was the only mourner at her funeral , and I cried enough for a hundred ; and it seemed to me , the night after the funeral , that I ...
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... at the age of seventeen , without a shelter , except from the charity of neighbours . " It was a crying sight , " said Mr. Tucker , " to see the poor thing the day Mrs. Amory died , looking around so piteous , as much as. RECOLLECTIONS OF.
... at the age of seventeen , without a shelter , except from the charity of neighbours . " It was a crying sight , " said Mr. Tucker , " to see the poor thing the day Mrs. Amory died , looking around so piteous , as much as. RECOLLECTIONS OF.
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... neighbour to ride around with the meats for me , first picking out a real tender bit of mutton for some broth for Miss Lucy ; and made as good a bargain as I could about the coffin . I happened in again on the afternoon of the burying ...
... neighbour to ride around with the meats for me , first picking out a real tender bit of mutton for some broth for Miss Lucy ; and made as good a bargain as I could about the coffin . I happened in again on the afternoon of the burying ...
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