Delicia, by the author of Miss MollyWilliam Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh and London, 1879 - 370 páginas |
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... young . But if one can only conjure up ghosts ? Ah , then , perhaps then the twilight does not prove so welcome . At least it is to be observed that as people grow older they care less for semi - darkness and more for gas and moderator ...
... young . But if one can only conjure up ghosts ? Ah , then , perhaps then the twilight does not prove so welcome . At least it is to be observed that as people grow older they care less for semi - darkness and more for gas and moderator ...
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... young girls in general are so hard , so un- sympathetic , so occupied with their own little pleasures or worries , of which they must and will talk , that they rarely can spare a moment to listen to the recital of the joys and sorrows ...
... young girls in general are so hard , so un- sympathetic , so occupied with their own little pleasures or worries , of which they must and will talk , that they rarely can spare a moment to listen to the recital of the joys and sorrows ...
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... young people , she acquiesced willingly , telling him she knew no one in London ( in the world she might have said ) she cared to see . So , everything thus settled to their mutual satis- faction , they had settled down into a quiet ...
... young people , she acquiesced willingly , telling him she knew no one in London ( in the world she might have said ) she cared to see . So , everything thus settled to their mutual satis- faction , they had settled down into a quiet ...
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... young , so pretty - so very pretty , some people said . -and motherless ; small wonder was it that Deli- cia's empty heart , remembering her own desolate , orphaned youth , warmed towards her , and seeing plainly THE HOUR . 9.
... young , so pretty - so very pretty , some people said . -and motherless ; small wonder was it that Deli- cia's empty heart , remembering her own desolate , orphaned youth , warmed towards her , and seeing plainly THE HOUR . 9.
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... young life to have made friends with old Miss Mainwaring , who , having long ceased to be young herself , and having of course little of her own wherein to interest herself , had always plenty of time to sympathise with her girl friend ...
... young life to have made friends with old Miss Mainwaring , who , having long ceased to be young herself , and having of course little of her own wherein to interest herself , had always plenty of time to sympathise with her girl friend ...
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