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... on the rocky coast , there to expire . The grandeur of the spectacle was over- powering . I felt faint and dizzy . Living in London all my life , I had never seen any- thing greater or grander than the sea at Brighton . 16 VERNEY COURT :
... on the rocky coast , there to expire . The grandeur of the spectacle was over- powering . I felt faint and dizzy . Living in London all my life , I had never seen any- thing greater or grander than the sea at Brighton . 16 VERNEY COURT :
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... require sympathy , and none would have dared to offer it , even had they felt inclined . If he had passed through the fire , it had not purified , but scathed him . I could not exactly define , though I tried hard 34 VERNEY COURT :
... require sympathy , and none would have dared to offer it , even had they felt inclined . If he had passed through the fire , it had not purified , but scathed him . I could not exactly define , though I tried hard 34 VERNEY COURT :
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... felt an unpleasant consciousness that he heard every word we uttered , and , whether it was this , or that Catherine's constraint had infected me , I know not , but I soon began to be as constrained as herself , As soon as tea was over ...
... felt an unpleasant consciousness that he heard every word we uttered , and , whether it was this , or that Catherine's constraint had infected me , I know not , but I soon began to be as constrained as herself , As soon as tea was over ...
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... felt that if I were to be shut up here for one week , with nothing to gaze at but this view , and nothing to listen to but these sounds , I should be mad when released . I turned from the dreary , dreary scene , and looked again round ...
... felt that if I were to be shut up here for one week , with nothing to gaze at but this view , and nothing to listen to but these sounds , I should be mad when released . I turned from the dreary , dreary scene , and looked again round ...
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... felt myself grow pale and shudder in- voluntarily . I turned to Catherine , but with- out speaking . 66 Yes , they are blood , " she said , answering my look . " Nobody ever told me so , but I know it , I feel it , and so do you , I see ...
... felt myself grow pale and shudder in- voluntarily . I turned to Catherine , but with- out speaking . 66 Yes , they are blood , " she said , answering my look . " Nobody ever told me so , but I know it , I feel it , and so do you , I see ...
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Page 1 - SEVERAL years have passed since the events occurred which I am about to relate in this narrative.