Raymond Bury, Volume 82Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Company, 1853 - 319 pages |
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... received him must be mooted ; the room in question having very much the air of being intended as a receptacle for smoked hams and bacon . One would not have disputed that fact with the owner of the Bury , Sir Paulet Raymond , the ...
... received him must be mooted ; the room in question having very much the air of being intended as a receptacle for smoked hams and bacon . One would not have disputed that fact with the owner of the Bury , Sir Paulet Raymond , the ...
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... received at court , and , though excluded from Parliament , he used whatever influence he pos- sessed in favour of the government member . Fortune had smiled on the lord of Raymond Bury ; he was rich - unincumbered with the cares of a ...
... received at court , and , though excluded from Parliament , he used whatever influence he pos- sessed in favour of the government member . Fortune had smiled on the lord of Raymond Bury ; he was rich - unincumbered with the cares of a ...
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... receiving Mr. Talbot , the future father - in - law of Gerald , we will quit the interior for the exterior of the mansion , which a lover of the picturesque would infinitely prefer . Imagine an old brick house , with stone mullions ...
... receiving Mr. Talbot , the future father - in - law of Gerald , we will quit the interior for the exterior of the mansion , which a lover of the picturesque would infinitely prefer . Imagine an old brick house , with stone mullions ...
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... received them in her morning room , which , from its oriel window , commanded a view of the garden , and the embowering woods beyond . She had been a beauty at the correct court of William and Mary ; had married the younger son of a ...
... received them in her morning room , which , from its oriel window , commanded a view of the garden , and the embowering woods beyond . She had been a beauty at the correct court of William and Mary ; had married the younger son of a ...
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... receiving , at the same time , a rather severe wound on the left wrist . How the struggle would ultimately have ended must remain untold , for a wild shout - a cry of " Help - help ! murder - murder ! " interrupted this strange duel ...
... receiving , at the same time , a rather severe wound on the left wrist . How the struggle would ultimately have ended must remain untold , for a wild shout - a cry of " Help - help ! murder - murder ! " interrupted this strange duel ...
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