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Page 125
... young charge with the hero of one of the earliest and longest - running melodramas on the Paris stage , Victor or the Forest's Child , the work of the young dramatist Pixérécourt , adapted from a popular novel . Because of the success ...
... young charge with the hero of one of the earliest and longest - running melodramas on the Paris stage , Victor or the Forest's Child , the work of the young dramatist Pixérécourt , adapted from a popular novel . Because of the success ...
Page 171
... young man , " a person of very striking aspect , with a white , lofty , and impending brow , large , brown , melancholy eyes , and mouth which , unless when he forcibly compressed it , was apt to be tremulous , expressing both nervous ...
... young man , " a person of very striking aspect , with a white , lofty , and impending brow , large , brown , melancholy eyes , and mouth which , unless when he forcibly compressed it , was apt to be tremulous , expressing both nervous ...
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... young aspects are pale and readable , though the meanings they convey are contrary : The two pale faces were looking at each other ; the one with a wild despair in it , the other full of sad yearning love . Dinah unconsciously opened ...
... young aspects are pale and readable , though the meanings they convey are contrary : The two pale faces were looking at each other ; the one with a wild despair in it , the other full of sad yearning love . Dinah unconsciously opened ...
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