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... replied Mary , " agree to go over to Brooklyn early in the morning , and practise with the pistol . " " Ah ! here they are , " exclaimed Mr. Lennox . young gentlemen , you're just in time . " " Come , " How many people have you shot ...
... replied Mary , " agree to go over to Brooklyn early in the morning , and practise with the pistol . " " Ah ! here they are , " exclaimed Mr. Lennox . young gentlemen , you're just in time . " " Come , " How many people have you shot ...
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... replied his mother , " how can you then join the party ? " 66 66 Oh , I don't mind . I shall rather prefer to stay in town . " Well , that is one way to celebrate one's birthday , to be sure , " said Frank , laughing . " I believe he re ...
... replied his mother , " how can you then join the party ? " 66 66 Oh , I don't mind . I shall rather prefer to stay in town . " Well , that is one way to celebrate one's birthday , to be sure , " said Frank , laughing . " I believe he re ...
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... " only you've grown rather younger and wilder . " " To be sure I have , " replied he ; " and why ? Because I have not troubled myself with wisdom ! I've never fret- ted and moped about what couldn't be helped . I HOBOKEN . 7.
... " only you've grown rather younger and wilder . " " To be sure I have , " replied he ; " and why ? Because I have not troubled myself with wisdom ! I've never fret- ted and moped about what couldn't be helped . I HOBOKEN . 7.
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... replied Mr. Lennox ; " a little changed or so , but just here , Mary , looking very much what you are now . Frank commander - in - chief , with his eyebrows and whiskers a little more bushy ( if possible ) , and Harry a senator , or ...
... replied Mr. Lennox ; " a little changed or so , but just here , Mary , looking very much what you are now . Frank commander - in - chief , with his eyebrows and whiskers a little more bushy ( if possible ) , and Harry a senator , or ...
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... replied Frank , amid the general smiles which these youthful anecdotes had provoked ; " I'm sure I might skip Miss Elton herself altogether , for all the truth there is in Mary's accusation . She may be a very decent sort of girl - I've ...
... replied Frank , amid the general smiles which these youthful anecdotes had provoked ; " I'm sure I might skip Miss Elton herself altogether , for all the truth there is in Mary's accusation . She may be a very decent sort of girl - I've ...
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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.
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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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