Claude Spencer, and Waddles1869 - 16 pages |
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... training , and a mother's tender care . Terms : Two pounds five to Three pounds per month ; according to age . No extras . Address , Mrs. Wallis , Laburnum Villa . " Such was the advertisement that met the eye of Mr. CLAUDE SPENCER. ...
... training , and a mother's tender care . Terms : Two pounds five to Three pounds per month ; according to age . No extras . Address , Mrs. Wallis , Laburnum Villa . " Such was the advertisement that met the eye of Mr. CLAUDE SPENCER. ...
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... WALLIS was seated at the breakfast- M table with her sister , a few mornings after the appearance of the advertisement in the paper , when the small servant entered , bear- ing on a waiter a letter which she eagerly opened . " Well ...
... WALLIS was seated at the breakfast- M table with her sister , a few mornings after the appearance of the advertisement in the paper , when the small servant entered , bear- ing on a waiter a letter which she eagerly opened . " Well ...
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... Wallis was the widow of a country school- master , she had never had any children of her own . Her husband had died suddenly about a year ago , leaving her mistress of the house in which she lived , and four hundred pounds ; for which ...
... Wallis was the widow of a country school- master , she had never had any children of her own . Her husband had died suddenly about a year ago , leaving her mistress of the house in which she lived , and four hundred pounds ; for which ...
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... Wallis rose to receive him , then asking him to be seated , turned to the three little ones who accompanied him ... Wallis . " Come , shake hands at once ; there's a dear . " “ No , me don't like you , and me don't want to sake hands ...
... Wallis rose to receive him , then asking him to be seated , turned to the three little ones who accompanied him ... Wallis . " Come , shake hands at once ; there's a dear . " “ No , me don't like you , and me don't want to sake hands ...
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... Wallis ' room , but no ; all was stiff , and cold , and comfortless ; and the children crept very close to each other . The very chairs seemed each to say to them , " You must mind how you sit on me . " But it was too late to repent now ...
... Wallis ' room , but no ; all was stiff , and cold , and comfortless ; and the children crept very close to each other . The very chairs seemed each to say to them , " You must mind how you sit on me . " But it was too late to repent now ...
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Page 3 - And he look'd at her and said, " Bring the dress and put it on her, That she wore when she was wed.
Page 50 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 47 - If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 23 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
Page 10 - And shouted but once more aloud, "My father! must I stay?" While o'er him fast, through sail and shroud, The wreathing fires made way. They...
Page 58 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 23 - Their graves are severed, far and wide, By mount, and stream, and sea. The same fond mother bent at night O'er each fair sleeping brow ; She had each folded flower in sight — Where are those dreamers now...
Page 60 - Gently the passing spirit fled, Sustained by grace divine ; Oh ! may such grace on me be shed, And make my end like thine.