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... future. Love ofnature, love of books,anearnest pietyand deep religiousenthusiasm were the characteristics ofanoble young soul, left to stray through the devious, checkered paths oflife without other guidance than thatwhich she received ...
... future. Love ofnature, love of books,anearnest pietyand deep religiousenthusiasm were the characteristics ofanoble young soul, left to stray through the devious, checkered paths oflife without other guidance than thatwhich she received ...
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... future. Education, she contended, was useless to poorpeople, who could not feed andclothe themselves with"book learning;"and experience had taught her that those who loungedabout withbooks intheirhands generally came to want, and ...
... future. Education, she contended, was useless to poorpeople, who could not feed andclothe themselves with"book learning;"and experience had taught her that those who loungedabout withbooks intheirhands generally came to want, and ...
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... future yearsis blotted out; clouds of despair and the grim night of an unbroken and unlifting desolation fall likea pall onheart andbrain; we dare notlook heavenward, dreading another blow; our anchor drags, we drift out into a hideous ...
... future yearsis blotted out; clouds of despair and the grim night of an unbroken and unlifting desolation fall likea pall onheart andbrain; we dare notlook heavenward, dreading another blow; our anchor drags, we drift out into a hideous ...
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... future wasnow a blank, crossedby no projected paths, lit with no rayof hope; and at daylight, when the cold, pale morning showed the stony face of the corpse at her side, her unnatural composure broke upina storm of passionatewoe, and ...
... future wasnow a blank, crossedby no projected paths, lit with no rayof hope; and at daylight, when the cold, pale morning showed the stony face of the corpse at her side, her unnatural composure broke upina storm of passionatewoe, and ...
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... future that loomed before her spectrethronged; and here Mr.Wood found herwhen anxiety atherlong absence induced his wife to search for the missing invalid. The storm of sobs and tears had spent itself, fortitudetookthe measure of the ...
... future that loomed before her spectrethronged; and here Mr.Wood found herwhen anxiety atherlong absence induced his wife to search for the missing invalid. The storm of sobs and tears had spent itself, fortitudetookthe measure of the ...
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