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Page 39
Come , my dear , says I , when Rachel put her handmaid to bed to Jacob , she
took the children as her own . ... So I called Amy , and encouraged her too , and
told her that I would take care of the child and her too , and added the same ...
Come , my dear , says I , when Rachel put her handmaid to bed to Jacob , she
took the children as her own . ... So I called Amy , and encouraged her too , and
told her that I would take care of the child and her too , and added the same ...
Page 63
I , that knew what this carcase of mine had been but a few years before ; how
overwhelmed with grief , drowned in tears , frightened with the prospect of
beggary , and surrounded with rags and fatherless children ; that was pawning
and selling ...
I , that knew what this carcase of mine had been but a few years before ; how
overwhelmed with grief , drowned in tears , frightened with the prospect of
beggary , and surrounded with rags and fatherless children ; that was pawning
and selling ...
Page 65
Assure yourself , child , says he , if it should be so , I will not refuse owning him for
my son , though it be , as they call it , a natural son ; and shall never slight or
neglect him , for the sake of his mother . Then he began to importune me to know
if ...
Assure yourself , child , says he , if it should be so , I will not refuse owning him for
my son , though it be , as they call it , a natural son ; and shall never slight or
neglect him , for the sake of his mother . Then he began to importune me to know
if ...
Page 67
If the child should live , your highness will , I don't question , act like yourself in
that part , and I shall have the utmost satisfaction that it will be well used by your
direction . I could see he took this very well . I have forsaken all the ladies in Paris
...
If the child should live , your highness will , I don't question , act like yourself in
that part , and I shall have the utmost satisfaction that it will be well used by your
direction . I could see he took this very well . I have forsaken all the ladies in Paris
...
Page 68
Great men are indeed delivered from the burthen of their natural children , or
bastards , as to their maintenance . ... or the unfortunate mother of that illegitimate
birth has a dreadful affliction , either of being turned off with her child , and be left
to ...
Great men are indeed delivered from the burthen of their natural children , or
bastards , as to their maintenance . ... or the unfortunate mother of that illegitimate
birth has a dreadful affliction , either of being turned off with her child , and be left
to ...
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| Title | Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe |
| Author | Daniel Defoe |
| Publisher | G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Jul 2007 |
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