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... night Edna crouched beside the bed , watching the wan but lovely face of the young widow , and tenderly chafing the numb , fair hands which lay so motion- less on the coverlet . Children are always sanguine , because of their ignorance ...
... night Edna crouched beside the bed , watching the wan but lovely face of the young widow , and tenderly chafing the numb , fair hands which lay so motion- less on the coverlet . Children are always sanguine , because of their ignorance ...
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... Night and day she pored over this new treasure ; sometimes dreaming of the hideous faces that scowled at her from the solemn , mournful pages ; and anon , when startled from sleep by these awful visions , she would soothe herself to ...
... Night and day she pored over this new treasure ; sometimes dreaming of the hideous faces that scowled at her from the solemn , mournful pages ; and anon , when startled from sleep by these awful visions , she would soothe herself to ...
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... night of an unbroken and unlifting desolation fall like a pall on heart and brain ; we dare not look heavenward , dreading another blow ; our anchor drags , we drift out into a hideous Dead Sea , where our idol has gone down forever ...
... night of an unbroken and unlifting desolation fall like a pall on heart and brain ; we dare not look heavenward , dreading another blow ; our anchor drags , we drift out into a hideous Dead Sea , where our idol has gone down forever ...
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... night wore on , she opened the cherished copy of Dante and tried to read , but the print was too fine for the dim lamp which hung at some distance from her corner . Her head ached violently , and , as sleep was impossible , she put the ...
... night wore on , she opened the cherished copy of Dante and tried to read , but the print was too fine for the dim lamp which hung at some distance from her corner . Her head ached violently , and , as sleep was impossible , she put the ...
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... 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 blackened and ...
... 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 blackened and ...
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