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Page 286
... hope to sit under the shade of a tree of my own planting . I hope this Register will give a start to its predecessors ; I assure you I shall spare no pains . John must lend his earnest attention to clear his hands of the quire stock ...
... hope to sit under the shade of a tree of my own planting . I hope this Register will give a start to its predecessors ; I assure you I shall spare no pains . John must lend his earnest attention to clear his hands of the quire stock ...
Page 572
... hope where there is no ground for hope . I wish it may not bring on the gloom of spirits which has given me such distress . If she were the active person she once was that would not be . Now I fear it more than what Constable or Cadell ...
... hope where there is no ground for hope . I wish it may not bring on the gloom of spirits which has given me such distress . If she were the active person she once was that would not be . Now I fear it more than what Constable or Cadell ...
Page 608
... hope she will not observe it . Apl . 20th . Lady Scott's health in the same harrassing state of un- certainty . Yet on my side with more of hope than I had two days since . Apl . 21st . This day I entertained more flattering hopes of ...
... hope she will not observe it . Apl . 20th . Lady Scott's health in the same harrassing state of un- certainty . Yet on my side with more of hope than I had two days since . Apl . 21st . This day I entertained more flattering hopes of ...
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