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... dear ; I won't have it after all the airs he put on . If , instead of shoeing his wild brute , I had knocked the fellow down for his insolence in cursing me , it would have served him right . Politeness is a cheap thing ; and a poor man ...
... dear ; I won't have it after all the airs he put on . If , instead of shoeing his wild brute , I had knocked the fellow down for his insolence in cursing me , it would have served him right . Politeness is a cheap thing ; and a poor man ...
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... dear , why don't you go in to the fire ? Are you waiting for me , out here in the cold ? I think Brindle cer- tainly must have been cropping grass around the old walls of Jericho , as that is the farthest off of any place I know . If ...
... dear , why don't you go in to the fire ? Are you waiting for me , out here in the cold ? I think Brindle cer- tainly must have been cropping grass around the old walls of Jericho , as that is the farthest off of any place I know . If ...
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... dear voices of our loved ones make music in our ears ; and lo ! God puts us in the crucible . The light of life — the hope of all future years is blotted out ; clouds of despair and the grim night of an unbroken and unlifting desolation ...
... dear voices of our loved ones make music in our ears ; and lo ! God puts us in the crucible . The light of life — the hope of all future years is blotted out ; clouds of despair and the grim night of an unbroken and unlifting desolation ...
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... Dear Grandy — my own dear Grandy ! I did pray for you while you were dying — here alone ! Oh , my God ! what have I done , that you should take him away from me ? Was not I on my knees when he died ? Oh ! what will become of me now ...
... Dear Grandy — my own dear Grandy ! I did pray for you while you were dying — here alone ! Oh , my God ! what have I done , that you should take him away from me ? Was not I on my knees when he died ? Oh ! what will become of me now ...
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... dear graves of her dead ; and oppressed with an intolerable sense of desolation and utter isolation in the midst of hundreds of her own race , who were too en- tirely absorbed in their individual speculations , fears and aims , to spare ...
... dear graves of her dead ; and oppressed with an intolerable sense of desolation and utter isolation in the midst of hundreds of her own race , who were too en- tirely absorbed in their individual speculations , fears and aims , to spare ...
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