Recollections of a HousekeeperHarper & Brothers, 1834 - 155 páginas |
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... week old , his father brought home the treatises of Hamilton , West , Edgeworth , & c . on education . I had previously seen him poring over Rousseau and Xenophon . He read them faithfully , and dis- cussed them eloquently , yet not one ...
... week old , his father brought home the treatises of Hamilton , West , Edgeworth , & c . on education . I had previously seen him poring over Rousseau and Xenophon . He read them faithfully , and dis- cussed them eloquently , yet not one ...
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... weeks elapsed in apparent acquiescence to my wishes . My whole soul was absorbed in Frederick , or perhaps I should have noticed . the under - current that was hurrying Polly to destruction . To see his intelligent smile awa- kening ...
... weeks elapsed in apparent acquiescence to my wishes . My whole soul was absorbed in Frederick , or perhaps I should have noticed . the under - current that was hurrying Polly to destruction . To see his intelligent smile awa- kening ...
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... week to pass an evening with his friends . His ideas were all in a cir- cle , and to us it was a mental tread - mill . We soon learned to distinguish his knock at the door , and what a death - peal was it to our imaginations when ...
... week to pass an evening with his friends . His ideas were all in a cir- cle , and to us it was a mental tread - mill . We soon learned to distinguish his knock at the door , and what a death - peal was it to our imaginations when ...
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... week - day clothes , and for six days was as faithful a tailor as he had been lover on the seventh . I arose at eight , and found snow - patches in every crevice of my windows , a tracery of frost- work on the panes of glass , and the ...
... week - day clothes , and for six days was as faithful a tailor as he had been lover on the seventh . I arose at eight , and found snow - patches in every crevice of my windows , a tracery of frost- work on the panes of glass , and the ...
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... , that we had no company for sev- eral weeks , and Henry and myself were too much engrossed with each other to observe the gradual decline of good order which had taken place since the departure of our city help ; but A HOUSEKEEPER . 111.
... , that we had no company for sev- eral weeks , and Henry and myself were too much engrossed with each other to observe the gradual decline of good order which had taken place since the departure of our city help ; but A HOUSEKEEPER . 111.
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