Claude Spencer, and Waddles1869 - 16 pages |
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... feel sure those children will be ruined if something is not done soon . Strange ! " he continued , " I never knew them like this when she was living ; I never heard any complaints about their beha- viour then , I wonder how it is ...
... feel sure those children will be ruined if something is not done soon . Strange ! " he continued , " I never knew them like this when she was living ; I never heard any complaints about their beha- viour then , I wonder how it is ...
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... termed it . After all arrangements had been concluded , Mr. Spencer rose to take leave ; and a feeling of profound sadness stole over him , as he thought of his lost wife , and all the happy hours 12 Claude Spencer .
... termed it . After all arrangements had been concluded , Mr. Spencer rose to take leave ; and a feeling of profound sadness stole over him , as he thought of his lost wife , and all the happy hours 12 Claude Spencer .
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... . " Jump and laugh , Fanny , darling , ” said Selina , or Lena , as she was mostly called . " Oh ! don't Fanny feel glad , " responded the little one . Claude was the only one who remained silent . Long 32 Claude Spencer .
... . " Jump and laugh , Fanny , darling , ” said Selina , or Lena , as she was mostly called . " Oh ! don't Fanny feel glad , " responded the little one . Claude was the only one who remained silent . Long 32 Claude Spencer .
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... told Claude to go to Miss Winn , who placed the knife and thimble in his hands saying , " Mrs. Wallis says you may have them both to keep , Claude . " The child had stood looking pale with the intense feeling Claude Spencer . 45.
... told Claude to go to Miss Winn , who placed the knife and thimble in his hands saying , " Mrs. Wallis says you may have them both to keep , Claude . " The child had stood looking pale with the intense feeling Claude Spencer . 45.
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... feeling of pleasure he experienced in once more possessing his knife , but at sight of the old thimble , he positively trembled , his cheeks flushed to a burning heat . With two bounds he reached Mrs. Wallis ' side , and throwing his ...
... feeling of pleasure he experienced in once more possessing his knife , but at sight of the old thimble , he positively trembled , his cheeks flushed to a burning heat . With two bounds he reached Mrs. Wallis ' side , and throwing his ...
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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.