Queen MabD. Appleton, 1864 - 476 pages |
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Page 10
... pounds , no more , sir , will make fortune this very day . " your Mr. Ford was just then very much in want of a guinea , and to be asked for a hundred pounds by the least trustworthy of his acquaintance was not soothing , even though ...
... pounds , no more , sir , will make fortune this very day . " your Mr. Ford was just then very much in want of a guinea , and to be asked for a hundred pounds by the least trustworthy of his acquaintance was not soothing , even though ...
Page 11
... pounds will do it this time - not guineas , mind ; a hundred pounds ! " Mr. Ford rested his elbow on the table and leaned his cheek on his hand . He had not a hundred pounds indeed , but he had been staggered by Captain George's ...
... pounds will do it this time - not guineas , mind ; a hundred pounds ! " Mr. Ford rested his elbow on the table and leaned his cheek on his hand . He had not a hundred pounds indeed , but he had been staggered by Captain George's ...
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... pounds , and suitors for her hand abounded . Some were titled , many prosper- ous - John Ford , a poor struggling lawyer , was preferred . He was then a handsome man of twenty - seven , but his weak nether lip , his vacillating look ...
... pounds , and suitors for her hand abounded . Some were titled , many prosper- ous - John Ford , a poor struggling lawyer , was preferred . He was then a handsome man of twenty - seven , but his weak nether lip , his vacillating look ...
Page 17
... pounds had enriched a few knaves , and were lost forever to Alicia and her children yet unborn . Spite this mistake , which he would not acknowledge , Mr. Ford did not forfeit at once his wife's confidence . She still hoped in him , and ...
... pounds had enriched a few knaves , and were lost forever to Alicia and her children yet unborn . Spite this mistake , which he would not acknowledge , Mr. Ford did not forfeit at once his wife's confidence . She still hoped in him , and ...
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... pounds a year if need be - a little money more or less is not much matter . " " Of course not . " " And , Mr. Ford , get me an harmonium , if you please . I cannot talk , and yet the silence of these rooms is too much for me ...
... pounds a year if need be - a little money more or less is not much matter . " " Of course not . " " And , Mr. Ford , get me an harmonium , if you please . I cannot talk , and yet the silence of these rooms is too much for me ...
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Page 278 - He began walking up and down the room, with his hands in his pockets, talking aloud, and feeling with his old irritated fingers the two watches which he wore in his two fobs.