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... Cubleigh and Cubleigh , who , for services rendered at a critical period to the Govern- ment EHRENBREITSTEIN . " 53.
... Cubleigh and Cubleigh , who , for services rendered at a critical period to the Govern- ment EHRENBREITSTEIN . " 53.
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... Cubleigh was a fat , languid , effeminate young fellow , with a pale , flabby face , full sensual lips , sandy - red hair , which he wore long , and furtive eyes of a greenish tint . He eschewed all manly games , professed himself to be ...
... Cubleigh was a fat , languid , effeminate young fellow , with a pale , flabby face , full sensual lips , sandy - red hair , which he wore long , and furtive eyes of a greenish tint . He eschewed all manly games , professed himself to be ...
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... Cubleigh , who was held by Ribblesdale in great contempt , and Mrs. Massenger , on more than one occasion in the ... Cubleigh's jealousy or Mrs. Massenger's wonder . Together they rode , and fished , and shot , and bathed . Together they ...
... Cubleigh , who was held by Ribblesdale in great contempt , and Mrs. Massenger , on more than one occasion in the ... Cubleigh's jealousy or Mrs. Massenger's wonder . Together they rode , and fished , and shot , and bathed . Together they ...
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... Cubleigh . A small shopkeeper at Fisherswick , named Slocombe , who was also the village postmaster , had a hand- some but slatternly daughter named Betsey , for whose society Cubleigh had a great predilection , and when his fellow ...
... Cubleigh . A small shopkeeper at Fisherswick , named Slocombe , who was also the village postmaster , had a hand- some but slatternly daughter named Betsey , for whose society Cubleigh had a great predilection , and when his fellow ...
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... Cubleigh in the little com- partment which shut out the letter department from the groceries . The two were laughing and talking together very confidentially , and occasionally burst out laughing as they examined the letters one by one ...
... Cubleigh in the little com- partment which shut out the letter department from the groceries . The two were laughing and talking together very confidentially , and occasionally burst out laughing as they examined the letters one by one ...
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Page 203 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
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