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... looked up wonderingly at the advancing stranger. "Oh, grandpa! thereisa murderedman lyinginthe grass, under the chestnut trees, downbythe spring." "Why! howdoyou know he wasmurdered?" "Good morning, sir. Your granddaughter happened to ...
... looked up wonderingly at the advancing stranger. "Oh, grandpa! thereisa murderedman lyinginthe grass, under the chestnut trees, downbythe spring." "Why! howdoyou know he wasmurdered?" "Good morning, sir. Your granddaughter happened to ...
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... looked at me but once.I should not like to meet himagain; I am afraid of him." "Never fear, Pearl, heis a stranger here, and there's little chance of your ever setting your eyes on his ugly, savage face again. Keep the money, dear; I ...
... looked at me but once.I should not like to meet himagain; I am afraid of him." "Never fear, Pearl, heis a stranger here, and there's little chance of your ever setting your eyes on his ugly, savage face again. Keep the money, dear; I ...
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... fire, Mrs. Woodtold herasgently aspossible thather grandmother had diedfrom a disease which wasravaging the countryand supposedto be cholera. The intelligence produced no emotion; she merely looked up an instant, glanced CHAPTER III. ...
... fire, Mrs. Woodtold herasgently aspossible thather grandmother had diedfrom a disease which wasravaging the countryand supposedto be cholera. The intelligence produced no emotion; she merely looked up an instant, glanced CHAPTER III. ...
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... looked ather, with an expression almosthuman inthe mild, liquideyes, allthe events ofthat last serene evening swept back to Edna's deadened memory, and, leaning her head on Brindle's horns, she shedthe first tears that had flowed for ...
... looked ather, with an expression almosthuman inthe mild, liquideyes, allthe events ofthat last serene evening swept back to Edna's deadened memory, and, leaning her head on Brindle's horns, she shedthe first tears that had flowed for ...
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... looked back, onlythe mistmantled rocks of Lookout,and the dim, purplishoutline of the Sequatchie heights were familiar. In the shadow of that solitary sentinel peak herlife had been passed; shehad gathered chestnuts and chincapins among ...
... looked back, onlythe mistmantled rocks of Lookout,and the dim, purplishoutline of the Sequatchie heights were familiar. In the shadow of that solitary sentinel peak herlife had been passed; shehad gathered chestnuts and chincapins among ...
Contents
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