Mary Ware, the Little Colonel's ChumPage, 1908 - 305 pages |
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... play , and this was one of the scenes in Act I. She had seen a setting like this on a stage one time , when a beautiful lady trailed down the steps of a Vene- tian palace to the gondola waiting in the lagoon be- low . To be sure Mary's ...
... play , and this was one of the scenes in Act I. She had seen a setting like this on a stage one time , when a beautiful lady trailed down the steps of a Vene- tian palace to the gondola waiting in the lagoon be- low . To be sure Mary's ...
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... played by a master . She sat down on the steps to listen . - The self - conscious feeling that she was acting a part in a play came back afresh , and made her ha- stily pull down her skirts and assume a listening at- titude . Thinking ...
... played by a master . She sat down on the steps to listen . - The self - conscious feeling that she was acting a part in a play came back afresh , and made her ha- stily pull down her skirts and assume a listening at- titude . Thinking ...
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... play in which she was chief actor came back stronger than ever when she took her seat in one of the high - backed ebony chairs , with the carved grif- fins atop , and unfolded her napkin in the gaze of a long line of ancestral portraits ...
... play in which she was chief actor came back stronger than ever when she took her seat in one of the high - backed ebony chairs , with the carved grif- fins atop , and unfolded her napkin in the gaze of a long line of ancestral portraits ...
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... Play dumb for say a week . " 66 - - But that is so much good time wasted , when we might be chums from the start . going to bed is the cream of the day . When you're You see you always had Lloyd , so you don't know what it is like to ...
... Play dumb for say a week . " 66 - - But that is so much good time wasted , when we might be chums from the start . going to bed is the cream of the day . When you're You see you always had Lloyd , so you don't know what it is like to ...
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... playing dumb for awhile . Oh , but it has been funny up in our room this morning . I took your advice , and I want to tell you about it before the other girls come down . " Betty laughed heartily as Mary pictured herself in bed under ...
... playing dumb for awhile . Oh , but it has been funny up in our room this morning . I took your advice , and I want to tell you about it before the other girls come down . " Betty laughed heartily as Mary pictured herself in bed under ...
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