Mary Ware, the Little Colonel's ChumL.C. Page, 1908 - 305 pages |
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... never told what happened between the time of her engagement and the wedding , and you never told what happened to Betty and Joyce and Mary and Phil and all the rest of them . Even if you haven't time for another book , couldn't you just ...
... never told what happened between the time of her engagement and the wedding , and you never told what happened to Betty and Joyce and Mary and Phil and all the rest of them . Even if you haven't time for another book , couldn't you just ...
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... never laid eyes before should call him by name . He wondered if she were one of these new - fangled mind - readers he had been hearing so much about . It was also upsetting to find that he had been mistaken about her delay in knocking ...
... never laid eyes before should call him by name . He wondered if she were one of these new - fangled mind - readers he had been hearing so much about . It was also upsetting to find that he had been mistaken about her delay in knocking ...
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... never feel at ease in an infantile position like that . Then she tried a straight chair , imitating the pose of a majestic gentlewoman in one of the portraits on the panelled wall . It was one of Madam's grand ancestors she conjectured ...
... never feel at ease in an infantile position like that . Then she tried a straight chair , imitating the pose of a majestic gentlewoman in one of the portraits on the panelled wall . It was one of Madam's grand ancestors she conjectured ...
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... never been greeted with quite such an outburst as this . Des- perate to make herself understood , Mary began in the middle of her carefully planned speech and breathlessly explained backward , as to why she had arrived at this ...
... never been greeted with quite such an outburst as this . Des- perate to make herself understood , Mary began in the middle of her carefully planned speech and breathlessly explained backward , as to why she had arrived at this ...
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... never dream of looking . As she listened , Madam began to feel warmly drawn to the entire family who had taken the good old Vicar of Wakefield for an example , and adopted one of his sayings as a rule of life : " Let us be inflexible ...
... never dream of looking . As she listened , Madam began to feel warmly drawn to the entire family who had taken the good old Vicar of Wakefield for an example , and adopted one of his sayings as a rule of life : " Let us be inflexible ...
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Page 203 - TOO late I stayed, forgive the crime, — Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of Time That only treads on flowers!
Page 280 - If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Page 52 - This learned I from the shadow of a tree That to and fro did sway upon the wall, Our shadow selves — our influence, may fall Where we can never be.