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Pardon me if I conceal his name , for though he was the foundation of my ruin , I
cannot take so severe a revenge With this thing called a husband I lived eight
years in good fashion , and for some part of the time kept a coach , that is to say ,
a ...
Pardon me if I conceal his name , for though he was the foundation of my ruin , I
cannot take so severe a revenge With this thing called a husband I lived eight
years in good fashion , and for some part of the time kept a coach , that is to say ,
a ...
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... husband , so I began to make away one thing after another , till those few
things of value which I had began to lessen apace , and I saw nothing but misery
and the utmost distress before me , even to have my children starve before my
face .
... husband , so I began to make away one thing after another , till those few
things of value which I had began to lessen apace , and I saw nothing but misery
and the utmost distress before me , even to have my children starve before my
face .
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... in a few words ; things must not stand thus , some course must be taken , and
that forthwith ; pray where were these children born ? I told her the parish where
we lived before , that four of them were born there , and one in the house where I
...
... in a few words ; things must not stand thus , some course must be taken , and
that forthwith ; pray where were these children born ? I told her the parish where
we lived before , that four of them were born there , and one in the house where I
...
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... and that I should give him leave to treat me : so he called my maid Amy , and
sent her out to buy a joint of meat ; he told her what she should buy ; but naming
two or three things , either of which she might take , the maid , a cunning wench ...
... and that I should give him leave to treat me : so he called my maid Amy , and
sent her out to buy a joint of meat ; he told her what she should buy ; but naming
two or three things , either of which she might take , the maid , a cunning wench ...
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Nay , says I , that's a hard thing too , that we should judge a man to be wicked
because he's charitable ; and vicious ... O madam , says Amy , there's abundance
of charity begins in that vice ; and he is not so unacquainted with things as not to
...
Nay , says I , that's a hard thing too , that we should judge a man to be wicked
because he's charitable ; and vicious ... O madam , says Amy , there's abundance
of charity begins in that vice ; and he is not so unacquainted with things as not to
...
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| Title | Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe |
| Author | Daniel Defoe |
| Publisher | G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Jul 2007 |
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