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... mother was the only daughter of Aaron Hunt , the village blacksmith , and her father , who was an intelligent , promising young carpenter , accidentally fell from the roof of the house which he was shingling , and died from the injuries ...
... mother was the only daughter of Aaron Hunt , the village blacksmith , and her father , who was an intelligent , promising young carpenter , accidentally fell from the roof of the house which he was shingling , and died from the injuries ...
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... mother's shoulder , and its little dimpled arm and hand hang- ing over the back of the seat . There was comfort and a soothing sensation of human companionship in the touch of that baby's hand ; it seemed a link in the electric chain of ...
... mother's shoulder , and its little dimpled arm and hand hang- ing over the back of the seat . There was comfort and a soothing sensation of human companionship in the touch of that baby's hand ; it seemed a link in the electric chain of ...
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... mother to kiss and love it . It was all wrong to feel so , but I was so wretched . And then God raised up friends even among strangers , and shows me I am not forsaken if I am desolate . I begin to think He took everybody away from me ...
... mother to kiss and love it . It was all wrong to feel so , but I was so wretched . And then God raised up friends even among strangers , and shows me I am not forsaken if I am desolate . I begin to think He took everybody away from me ...
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... mother's good - night kiss rested like a blessing on his smooth , boyish forehead , and the prayer learned in the nursery still crept across his pure lips ; but now the fair , chiseled lineaments were blotted by dissipation , and ...
... mother's good - night kiss rested like a blessing on his smooth , boyish forehead , and the prayer learned in the nursery still crept across his pure lips ; but now the fair , chiseled lineaments were blotted by dissipation , and ...
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... mother , I should say you were a candidate for a straight - jacket and a lunatic asylum ; but as those amiable proclivities are considered hereditary , I do not favor that comparison . ' Sorry for her , ' indeed ! I'll bet my right arm ...
... mother , I should say you were a candidate for a straight - jacket and a lunatic asylum ; but as those amiable proclivities are considered hereditary , I do not favor that comparison . ' Sorry for her , ' indeed ! I'll bet my right arm ...
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