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... Hall—an exceptional occurrence, and under exceptional circumstances—when, after dinner, the host began one of his ... Fairburn, if he chose, and so might once more take his rightful station in the world, rejoin the Fourinhand Club, and demand ...
... Hall—an exceptional occurrence, and under exceptional circumstances—when, after dinner, the host began one of his ... Fairburn, if he chose, and so might once more take his rightful station in the world, rejoin the Fourinhand Club, and demand ...
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... Fairburn Hall had never been a house for tender, honest women; the Heaths, who are celebrated like another noble race of the same sort, for their hard hearts and excellent digestions, had never been good husbands. Fortunately, daughters ...
... Fairburn Hall had never been a house for tender, honest women; the Heaths, who are celebrated like another noble race of the same sort, for their hard hearts and excellent digestions, had never been good husbands. Fortunately, daughters ...
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... Fairburn Rectory was my home. I had no vacations, in the sense that the word is generally understood to mean; I had ... Hall, halfhidden in oak; and last, the lowroofed, blossomentangled cottage where I found so bright a welcome—that was the ...
... Fairburn Rectory was my home. I had no vacations, in the sense that the word is generally understood to mean; I had ... Hall, halfhidden in oak; and last, the lowroofed, blossomentangled cottage where I found so bright a welcome—that was the ...
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... he was the most earnest talker, as a boy, I ever knew—the mention of his uncle's name was a Medusa's Head to turn him into stony silence on the instant. If Marmaduke Heath could only have got away from Fairburn Hall when I first knew.
... he was the most earnest talker, as a boy, I ever knew—the mention of his uncle's name was a Medusa's Head to turn him into stony silence on the instant. If Marmaduke Heath could only have got away from Fairburn Hall when I first knew.
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A Romance of Real Life James Payn. have got away from Fairburn Hall when I first knew him, his mind might have regained its natural vigour and elasticity; but as it was, it grew more sombre and morbid every day. His hungry intellect was ...
A Romance of Real Life James Payn. have got away from Fairburn Hall when I first knew him, his mind might have regained its natural vigour and elasticity; but as it was, it grew more sombre and morbid every day. His hungry intellect was ...
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