Once a WeekEneas Sweetland Dallas Bradbury and Evans., 1873 - General |
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... Venn to take her out of them . Sometimes she would shut out the world around her by building castles in the air , and so forget things . Only , as time went on , and things did not change but for the worse , she found it becoming daily ...
... Venn to take her out of them . Sometimes she would shut out the world around her by building castles in the air , and so forget things . Only , as time went on , and things did not change but for the worse , she found it becoming daily ...
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... Venn was to all her faults very blind . She cribbed everything . She never cleaned anything . She smashed everything . She cheated- but she was Lollie's grandmother . Lollie's education we have sufficiently de- scribed . It had , as we ...
... Venn was to all her faults very blind . She cribbed everything . She never cleaned anything . She smashed everything . She cheated- but she was Lollie's grandmother . Lollie's education we have sufficiently de- scribed . It had , as we ...
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... Venn , being very carefully and elaborately dressed . His face she hardly noticed , except that he had a small and very black moustache . But she was so frightened that she was not thinking of faces . " I live close by , " she said ...
... Venn , being very carefully and elaborately dressed . His face she hardly noticed , except that he had a small and very black moustache . But she was so frightened that she was not thinking of faces . " I live close by , " she said ...
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... Venn began to be seriously troubled about the fu- ture of his protégée . He realized , for the first time , that she was now a woman ; and yet he was loath to change any of the little customs which had gone on so long . For instance ...
... Venn began to be seriously troubled about the fu- ture of his protégée . He realized , for the first time , that she was now a woman ; and yet he was loath to change any of the little customs which had gone on so long . For instance ...
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... Venn ? " The girl looked up and laughed in his face , with those merry blue eyes of hers . " What have I done that I must be married ? " " Don't raise difficulties , Lollie , " he said , in a feeble way . " After all the trouble we had ...
... Venn ? " The girl looked up and laughed in his face , with those merry blue eyes of hers . " What have I done that I must be married ? " " Don't raise difficulties , Lollie , " he said , in a feeble way . " After all the trouble we had ...
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