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... child stood watching the gorgeous spectacle, drinking draughts ofjoy,which mingled no drop ofsinor selfishness in itscrystalwaves; for shehadgrown up alone with nature—utterly ignorantof the roarand strife,the burning hateand cunning ...
... child stood watching the gorgeous spectacle, drinking draughts ofjoy,which mingled no drop ofsinor selfishness in itscrystalwaves; for shehadgrown up alone with nature—utterly ignorantof the roarand strife,the burning hateand cunning ...
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... child staggered tothespot,andlooked on the prostrate form, he was dead. The hazel eyes stared blankly at the sky ... child's eyes had wanderedto the latter from the pool of blood, and now in a shuddering cryshe broke thesilence ...
... child staggered tothespot,andlooked on the prostrate form, he was dead. The hazel eyes stared blankly at the sky ... child's eyes had wanderedto the latter from the pool of blood, and now in a shuddering cryshe broke thesilence ...
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... child, and, turning away,was soon out of sight. "Oh, sir!will youlethim get away? will youlet himgo unpunished?" "He cannot be punished," answered the surgeon, looking at her with mingled curiosity and admiration. "I thoughtmenwere hung ...
... child, and, turning away,was soon out of sight. "Oh, sir!will youlethim get away? will youlet himgo unpunished?" "He cannot be punished," answered the surgeon, looking at her with mingled curiosity and admiration. "I thoughtmenwere hung ...
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... child followed a narrow, beatenpath, which soon terminated atthegateof a rude, unwhitewashed paling. Alow, comfortlesslooking threeroomed house stood within,andon thesteps sat anelderly man,smoking a pipe, andbusily engaged inmending a ...
... child followed a narrow, beatenpath, which soon terminated atthegateof a rude, unwhitewashed paling. Alow, comfortlesslooking threeroomed house stood within,andon thesteps sat anelderly man,smoking a pipe, andbusily engaged inmending a ...
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... was no marvel that the child stared andshivered when she saw the lawsofGod vetoed, and wasblandly introducedto murder asHonorable Satisfaction. CHAPTER II. Nearly a mile from the small,stragglingvillage of Chattanooga.
... was no marvel that the child stared andshivered when she saw the lawsofGod vetoed, and wasblandly introducedto murder asHonorable Satisfaction. CHAPTER II. Nearly a mile from the small,stragglingvillage of Chattanooga.
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