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... dear; I won't have it after all the airs he puton. If, instead of shoeing his wild brute, I had knocked the fellow down for his insolence in cursing me, it would haveserved him right. Politeness is acheap thing; and a poorman, if he ...
... dear; I won't have it after all the airs he puton. If, instead of shoeing his wild brute, I had knocked the fellow down for his insolence in cursing me, it would haveserved him right. Politeness is acheap thing; and a poorman, if he ...
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... dear Grandy! I have come back!My grandpa! Oh!—" A wild, despairing cry rent the stillevening air, and shrieked dismally backfrom the distant hills and the gray, ghostly mountain and the child fell on her face at the dead man's feet ...
... dear Grandy! I have come back!My grandpa! Oh!—" A wild, despairing cry rent the stillevening air, and shrieked dismally backfrom the distant hills and the gray, ghostly mountain and the child fell on her face at the dead man's feet ...
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... dear voices of our loved ones make music in our ears; and lo!God puts us inthe crucible. The light of life—the hope ofall future yearsis blotted out; clouds of despair and the grim night of an unbroken and unlifting desolation fall ...
... dear voices of our loved ones make music in our ears; and lo!God puts us inthe crucible. The light of life—the hope ofall future yearsis blotted out; clouds of despair and the grim night of an unbroken and unlifting desolation fall ...
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... Dear Grandy—my own dear Grandy! I did pray for you while youwere dying—herealone! Oh, my God! what have I done, that you shouldtake him awayfrom me? WasnotI on my knees when he died? Oh! what will become of me now? Nobody to care for ...
... Dear Grandy—my own dear Grandy! I did pray for you while youwere dying—herealone! Oh, my God! what have I done, that you shouldtake him awayfrom me? WasnotI on my knees when he died? Oh! what will become of me now? Nobody to care for ...
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... dear little baby, whohad afather and mother to kiss and loveit.It was all wrongto feel so,butIwas so wretched. And then God raised up friends even among strangers, and shows meIam not forsaken ifI am desolate. I begin tothink He took ...
... dear little baby, whohad afather and mother to kiss and loveit.It was all wrongto feel so,butIwas so wretched. And then God raised up friends even among strangers, and shows meIam not forsaken ifI am desolate. I begin tothink He took ...
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