Who Will Save Her. A Novel1874 |
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... and its twin parish of Wentworth . Unmistakably a gentleman ; -Frank Mild- may might have worn ragged corduroy or frowsy fustian , but the most inexperienced eye could not mistake him for anything but that . 4 Who Will Save Her ?
... and its twin parish of Wentworth . Unmistakably a gentleman ; -Frank Mild- may might have worn ragged corduroy or frowsy fustian , but the most inexperienced eye could not mistake him for anything but that . 4 Who Will Save Her ?
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... me , and see poor dear papa at once - at once ! at once ! " Yours , in much alarm , " GERTRUDE WENTWORTH . " After having read this epistle through for the third time , the rector folded it care- fully 16 Who Will Save Her ?
... me , and see poor dear papa at once - at once ! at once ! " Yours , in much alarm , " GERTRUDE WENTWORTH . " After having read this epistle through for the third time , the rector folded it care- fully 16 Who Will Save Her ?
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... Wentworth is about to die ! " " Nonsense ! " said the rector . " The death of a dozen Wentworths couldn't con- cern the owls , nor ravens , much , though possibly the fox might have a larger interest in the matter . How is Miss Gertrude ...
... Wentworth is about to die ! " " Nonsense ! " said the rector . " The death of a dozen Wentworths couldn't con- cern the owls , nor ravens , much , though possibly the fox might have a larger interest in the matter . How is Miss Gertrude ...
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... Wentworth ? " " Such is my wish . " " My good friend Mrs. Bleek will conduct you to her room ; but before doing so ... Wentworth's 30 Who Will Save Her ?
... Wentworth ? " " Such is my wish . " " My good friend Mrs. Bleek will conduct you to her room ; but before doing so ... Wentworth's 30 Who Will Save Her ?
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... Wentworth's mind , as I judge it , must at all times have been ready to receive impressions from those influences that more immediately surround her . She has received shock after shock of late , as you know ; and the gloom , if I may ...
... Wentworth's mind , as I judge it , must at all times have been ready to receive impressions from those influences that more immediately surround her . She has received shock after shock of late , as you know ; and the gloom , if I may ...
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Page 11 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed Angler ; for when the Lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the Statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
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