A strange world, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'. |
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... daughter is home on a visit , and they haven't a bed to give me for love or money . ' Mrs. Darvis lapsed into meditation . ' The nearest farmhouse is Trevanard's , at Borcel End . They might give you a bed there , for the place is large ...
... daughter is home on a visit , and they haven't a bed to give me for love or money . ' Mrs. Darvis lapsed into meditation . ' The nearest farmhouse is Trevanard's , at Borcel End . They might give you a bed there , for the place is large ...
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... thinking I should be forced to go back to the village anyhow . It was an afterthought coming on here . Oh , by the way , there's a girl outside , the lodge- keeper's daughter , who has been my guide so far 18 A STRANGE WORLD .
... thinking I should be forced to go back to the village anyhow . It was an afterthought coming on here . Oh , by the way , there's a girl outside , the lodge- keeper's daughter , who has been my guide so far 18 A STRANGE WORLD .
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon. keeper's daughter , who has been my guide so far , and wants to know my fate before she goes home . What can you do with me , Mrs. Trevanard ? I'm not particular . Give me a truss of clean hay in one of your barns ...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon. keeper's daughter , who has been my guide so far , and wants to know my fate before she goes home . What can you do with me , Mrs. Trevanard ? I'm not particular . Give me a truss of clean hay in one of your barns ...
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... daughters , the two elder thorough women of the world , and most delightful girls to know . We were chums from the ... daughter — a tender slip of a girl , hardly out of the schoolroom - a child who had her gowns meted out to her by ...
... daughters , the two elder thorough women of the world , and most delightful girls to know . We were chums from the ... daughter — a tender slip of a girl , hardly out of the schoolroom - a child who had her gowns meted out to her by ...
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... daughter . ' Very natural , ' said Martin . ' I don't see why it shouldn't have ended pleasantly . ' ' I didn't act like a sneak - make love to the girl behind her sisters ' backs , and bide my time for winning her . I went to the ...
... daughter . ' Very natural , ' said Martin . ' I don't see why it shouldn't have ended pleasantly . ' ' I didn't act like a sneak - make love to the girl behind her sisters ' backs , and bide my time for winning her . I went to the ...
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Page 246 - To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way...
Page 34 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 24 - ... occasionally felt severely the loss of her children; often when she thought of them, she shut herself up in her garret, and wept bitterly. She carefully avoided schools, and every place where children were to be met; and seemed to be particularly conscientious in paying off the debts of Gottfried. She loved money, not so much for its own sake, as because it afforded her the means of making a figure among her acquaintances, and so of gratifying her vanity. Yet in spite of all these murders, she...