Recollections of a HousekeeperHarper & Brothers, 1834 - 155 páginas |
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... sweet music to lead thee , and a partner as kind . My teacher honoured , or rewarded , me with a choice of fancy dances , and I decided on the slow minuet . How brilliant was the scene ! Our old clergyman and his lady were stationed in ...
... sweet music to lead thee , and a partner as kind . My teacher honoured , or rewarded , me with a choice of fancy dances , and I decided on the slow minuet . How brilliant was the scene ! Our old clergyman and his lady were stationed in ...
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... tract the attention of my friends , but she pre- served silence , until , at the close of the service , a very sweet - looking girl bent her blue eye upon 38 Cinda with a smile . The temptation was irre- A HOUSEKEEPER . 37.
... tract the attention of my friends , but she pre- served silence , until , at the close of the service , a very sweet - looking girl bent her blue eye upon 38 Cinda with a smile . The temptation was irre- A HOUSEKEEPER . 37.
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... sweet voice in an evening hymn . Gradually , however , from five or six verses she diminished to one , until at last no music was heard ; but a hoarse , deep cough broke in even on my mid- night slumbers . Still she moved on in her ...
... sweet voice in an evening hymn . Gradually , however , from five or six verses she diminished to one , until at last no music was heard ; but a hoarse , deep cough broke in even on my mid- night slumbers . Still she moved on in her ...
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... sweet and happy strains , in which I soon loved to join . Time wore away , and she revived a little with reviving spring . She still had strength to carry her plants from window to window to catch the sunbeams , and could sit to watch ...
... sweet and happy strains , in which I soon loved to join . Time wore away , and she revived a little with reviving spring . She still had strength to carry her plants from window to window to catch the sunbeams , and could sit to watch ...
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... sweet to think that I shall repose among those objects which God has given me sensibility to enjoy . " She was carried to her favourite resting - place . From that period a religious repose chastened the intense tenderness of our hearts ...
... sweet to think that I shall repose among those objects which God has given me sensibility to enjoy . " She was carried to her favourite resting - place . From that period a religious repose chastened the intense tenderness of our hearts ...
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asked beautiful Becky BENJAMIN MORRELL called chair CHAPTER character CHARLES WEBB cheek child Cinda Clarissa comfort cook cousin Curry dear dinner domestic door dress Edition Edward eyes feel felt Frederick gave gentle glance glass grave Growler guests hair half hand happiness harpsichord heard heart HORACE SMITH housekeeper HUGH MURRAY husband Ingols JOHN JOHN ABERCROMBIE kitchen lady Lady MORGAN lamp LEITCH RITCHIE little Polly LL.D look LORD BYRON Lucy luxuries Lyddy ma'am Map and Engravings MEMOIRS Miss Packard morning mother Nancy NARRATIVE Natural History neighbour ness never New-England New-York night obliged OLINTHUS GREGORY parlour passed perceived Philipson Polly's poor Portrait recollect Sally scream seemed Sir WALTER SCOTT SKETCHES Sliter smile soon Stockton stood Sukey sweet taste tears thing thrown tion took Uncle Philip's uncon visiters voice vols WALTER SCOTT WILLIAM WILLIAM GODWIN window woman young
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