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... dear , I'm sure you must be tired and cold after your long journey ; so , as I am your next- door neighbour , Sarah Strong , I have come to beg you to step across the passage to my rooms , and warm yourself at my fire until dinner is ...
... dear , I'm sure you must be tired and cold after your long journey ; so , as I am your next- door neighbour , Sarah Strong , I have come to beg you to step across the passage to my rooms , and warm yourself at my fire until dinner is ...
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... dear , " said her kind friend , as she prepared to leave Miss Manwaring's apart- ments , to which she had accompanied her ; " and please expect me to - morrow at half after four , when I shall call and take you to see the Duchess ...
... dear , " said her kind friend , as she prepared to leave Miss Manwaring's apart- ments , to which she had accompanied her ; " and please expect me to - morrow at half after four , when I shall call and take you to see the Duchess ...
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... dear to me . I shall be glad to see her Grace to - morrow . " Miss Strong now committed her young companion to the care of Bessie Hudson , her Lancashire maid , and retired to her own apartments ; and Miss Manwaring was soon in bed ...
... dear to me . I shall be glad to see her Grace to - morrow . " Miss Strong now committed her young companion to the care of Bessie Hudson , her Lancashire maid , and retired to her own apartments ; and Miss Manwaring was soon in bed ...
Page 66
... Dear me , how odd ! There's something hard in the breast pocket , but of course that's nothing ! What drawer shall I replace it in ? " " Let me look , " interposed Mr. Wilmot , nervously . With great apparent reluctance Cubleigh placed ...
... Dear me , how odd ! There's something hard in the breast pocket , but of course that's nothing ! What drawer shall I replace it in ? " " Let me look , " interposed Mr. Wilmot , nervously . With great apparent reluctance Cubleigh placed ...
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... dear fellow is lying on the ground dead , for all we know to the contrary . Come , is no one going to help me to lift him up upon the bed ? " and so saying , he began to raise the helpless body . But the Doctor and Cubleigh stood aloof ...
... dear fellow is lying on the ground dead , for all we know to the contrary . Come , is no one going to help me to lift him up upon the bed ? " and so saying , he began to raise the helpless body . But the Doctor and Cubleigh stood aloof ...
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