Little Nineteenth-century Child: And Other StoriesWilliam Mullen & Son, 1878 - 374 pages |
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... feeling sure that the weather was far too bad for a policeman to be anywhere about . So Wynnie agreed , but lost horribly , because there wasn't one person in twenty who dreamed of going out on such a day without an umbrella ; and ...
... feeling sure that the weather was far too bad for a policeman to be anywhere about . So Wynnie agreed , but lost horribly , because there wasn't one person in twenty who dreamed of going out on such a day without an umbrella ; and ...
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... feeling her head at the same moment . " To her utter surprise she felt , at the back of her head , a tiny little screw of hair tightly done up under her hat . She pulled it down , and one or two hairs came into her hand . " What was her ...
... feeling her head at the same moment . " To her utter surprise she felt , at the back of her head , a tiny little screw of hair tightly done up under her hat . She pulled it down , and one or two hairs came into her hand . " What was her ...
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... lope Anne . You cruel , cruel creature ! I feel sure that you have changed me like this ; and it is very ungr - ungrateful indeed of you , ' she sobbed , ' when I have been so kind to you , and turned LITTLE NINETEENTH - CENTURY CHILD . 13.
... lope Anne . You cruel , cruel creature ! I feel sure that you have changed me like this ; and it is very ungr - ungrateful indeed of you , ' she sobbed , ' when I have been so kind to you , and turned LITTLE NINETEENTH - CENTURY CHILD . 13.
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... feel the loss of it as quite a good riddance . ' " Penelope Anne shook her head dismally . Like many other folks , she began to value things when she had lost them . She sat sobbing for a long while on the trunk of a fallen tree , quite ...
... feel the loss of it as quite a good riddance . ' " Penelope Anne shook her head dismally . Like many other folks , she began to value things when she had lost them . She sat sobbing for a long while on the trunk of a fallen tree , quite ...
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... feel- ings . She sobbed more than ever . " She wrung her withered old hands together . 1 ' What am I to do ? ' she cried , in her croaky old voice . ' Must I be an ugly old woman all my life ? ' “ Ah ! ' said the fairy . ' No - an idea ...
... feel- ings . She sobbed more than ever . " She wrung her withered old hands together . 1 ' What am I to do ? ' she cried , in her croaky old voice . ' Must I be an ugly old woman all my life ? ' “ Ah ! ' said the fairy . ' No - an idea ...
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