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... cheeks tillthey matched the brillianthueof her scarlet crown. Afew steps in advance of her stood a large, fierce yellow dog, with black,scowling face, and ears cut close to his head; a savage, repulsive creature, who.
... cheeks tillthey matched the brillianthueof her scarlet crown. Afew steps in advance of her stood a large, fierce yellow dog, with black,scowling face, and ears cut close to his head; a savage, repulsive creature, who.
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... cheek; but theball had enteredthe heart, andthewarm blood, bubbling from his breast,dripped onthe glistening grass. The surgeon who knelt beside himtook the pistol from his clenched fingers,and gently pressed the lids over his glazing ...
... cheek; but theball had enteredthe heart, andthewarm blood, bubbling from his breast,dripped onthe glistening grass. The surgeon who knelt beside himtook the pistol from his clenched fingers,and gently pressed the lids over his glazing ...
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... grayhaired man, downwhose furrowed cheeks tears coursed rapidly. Struggling to freeherself from his restraining grasp,the stranger tottered intothe middleof the room. "O Harry! My husband! my husband!" She threw up her.
... grayhaired man, downwhose furrowed cheeks tears coursed rapidly. Struggling to freeherself from his restraining grasp,the stranger tottered intothe middleof the room. "O Harry! My husband! my husband!" She threw up her.
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... cheek softly against his. "Oh! yes,Iam better. Hurry back, Pearl,I wantyou to read to me." It was a bright day in January, and the old man sat in a large rockingchair on the porch, smokinghis pipe, and sunning himself inthe last rays of ...
... cheek softly against his. "Oh! yes,Iam better. Hurry back, Pearl,I wantyou to read to me." It was a bright day in January, and the old man sat in a large rockingchair on the porch, smokinghis pipe, and sunning himself inthe last rays of ...
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... cheek, shestarted back in terror. The eyesstared at the moon, thestiff fingers clutched the pipe fromwhich the ashes hadnot been shaken, and the face was cold andrigid. Aaron Hunthad indeed fallen asleep, to wake nomoreamid the storms ...
... cheek, shestarted back in terror. The eyesstared at the moon, thestiff fingers clutched the pipe fromwhich the ashes hadnot been shaken, and the face was cold andrigid. Aaron Hunthad indeed fallen asleep, to wake nomoreamid the storms ...
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