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... lady ; a gay , amiable , excellent , and very handsome woman ; a little eloquent , perhaps ; but I like her because she has a heart . Mrs. Elton is one of my beau- ties , although she is fifty . " 66 Why , so are you fifty , father ...
... lady ; a gay , amiable , excellent , and very handsome woman ; a little eloquent , perhaps ; but I like her because she has a heart . Mrs. Elton is one of my beau- ties , although she is fifty . " 66 Why , so are you fifty , father ...
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... lady I should make up to , by any manner of means . She has rather too redundant a flow of conversation for my quiet and retiring disposition . I should carry the war into anoth- er quarter . ' 66 " " And , pray , who would it be ...
... lady I should make up to , by any manner of means . She has rather too redundant a flow of conversation for my quiet and retiring disposition . I should carry the war into anoth- er quarter . ' 66 " " And , pray , who would it be ...
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... ladies who were paying me a visit . I shall never forget how Frank drew himself up , in his grand way , and said , ' Mary's a mere child , and is always endeavour- ing to attract attention to every passing circumstance ! ' Poor Frank ...
... ladies who were paying me a visit . I shall never forget how Frank drew himself up , in his grand way , and said , ' Mary's a mere child , and is always endeavour- ing to attract attention to every passing circumstance ! ' Poor Frank ...
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... lady , sir , has deigned to honour you with an instant's attention - if you've received so much as an accidental look from her , and not gone crazy , you young scoundrel , you're no son of mine . " " He " You're rather hard upon Frank ...
... lady , sir , has deigned to honour you with an instant's attention - if you've received so much as an accidental look from her , and not gone crazy , you young scoundrel , you're no son of mine . " " He " You're rather hard upon Frank ...
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... lady importu- nate , had I not better forbid her the house ? Ha ! ha ! ha ! " The door was closed with a decision which a good ob- -server might have remarked above the merry laughter oc- casioned by the sally of Mr. Lennox . 66 Poor ...
... lady importu- nate , had I not better forbid her the house ? Ha ! ha ! ha ! " The door was closed with a decision which a good ob- -server might have remarked above the merry laughter oc- casioned by the sally of Mr. Lennox . 66 Poor ...
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Page 131 - Therefore take no thought, saying: What shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek.) For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 85 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 117 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
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