Delicia, by the author of Miss MollyWilliam Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh and London, 1879 - 370 páginas |
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... felt certain that when I got home I should find Jessie in a long dress seated in the drawing - room hoping for visitors ; and the very idea of it so aggravated me that I determined to come here and have a cup of tea to calm my nerves ...
... felt certain that when I got home I should find Jessie in a long dress seated in the drawing - room hoping for visitors ; and the very idea of it so aggravated me that I determined to come here and have a cup of tea to calm my nerves ...
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... felt inclined to do - she having small sympathy with imaginary troubles - that a time would probably arrive when the precocity , the forwardness of a younger sister , would not hold a great place amongst the trials of life . So she ...
... felt inclined to do - she having small sympathy with imaginary troubles - that a time would probably arrive when the precocity , the forwardness of a younger sister , would not hold a great place amongst the trials of life . So she ...
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... early , it took me so many hours of thought again this morning before I felt sufficiently certain I had decided for the best , that I was not able to get back here until six o'clock . " " And is your mind at rest now ? " THE MAN . 23.
... early , it took me so many hours of thought again this morning before I felt sufficiently certain I had decided for the best , that I was not able to get back here until six o'clock . " " And is your mind at rest now ? " THE MAN . 23.
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... felt , for his words came to her as a reve- lation , illuminating the recesses of her own unim- aginative mind . Or if more were needed , the touch of her hand on his would have brought forth the words hovering on his lips , and which ...
... felt , for his words came to her as a reve- lation , illuminating the recesses of her own unim- aginative mind . Or if more were needed , the touch of her hand on his would have brought forth the words hovering on his lips , and which ...
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... felt . She saw no cause for that , for the simple reason that in discovering her own secret she fancied she had discovered his . If this were indeed so , as she began to believe it might be , would not that account for the frequent ...
... felt . She saw no cause for that , for the simple reason that in discovering her own secret she fancied she had discovered his . If this were indeed so , as she began to believe it might be , would not that account for the frequent ...
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