Claude Spencer, and Waddles1869 - 16 pages |
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... felt those loving kisses . " Ann , " again called Mrs. Wallis . " Yes , mum , " answered she , as hastily placing the sleeping boy in bed , she stole one more kiss , and rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand , hastened to her own ...
... felt those loving kisses . " Ann , " again called Mrs. Wallis . " Yes , mum , " answered she , as hastily placing the sleeping boy in bed , she stole one more kiss , and rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand , hastened to her own ...
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... felt relieved as she looked after the retreating figure of the child . Claude ran to his sister's room . No sooner had he reached the bed , than a pair of tiny arms were clasped convulsively round his neck . " Deary Claude - you come to ...
... felt relieved as she looked after the retreating figure of the child . Claude ran to his sister's room . No sooner had he reached the bed , than a pair of tiny arms were clasped convulsively round his neck . " Deary Claude - you come to ...
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... felt at the same moment they were breathing purer air ; still Ann remained silent . At last they reached the open fields , when Ann looked all round , and seeing the coast clear , she lifted up first one then another of the children ...
... felt at the same moment they were breathing purer air ; still Ann remained silent . At last they reached the open fields , when Ann looked all round , and seeing the coast clear , she lifted up first one then another of the children ...
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... a " Guide to Heaven !! " She knew it was only Claude , she felt his warm lips when he kissed her , but , nevertheless , she believed him to be a mes- senger sent from God . 隊 CHAPTER VIII . " May God forgive me ! Claude Spencer . 4I.
... a " Guide to Heaven !! " She knew it was only Claude , she felt his warm lips when he kissed her , but , nevertheless , she believed him to be a mes- senger sent from God . 隊 CHAPTER VIII . " May God forgive me ! Claude Spencer . 4I.
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... felt there was something more than this wanted . It was not more than a week afterwards , that Mr. Smith , the medical gentleman who attended Miss Winn , drew Mrs. Wallis aside , and assured her there was a very great change for the ...
... felt there was something more than this wanted . It was not more than a week afterwards , that Mr. Smith , the medical gentleman who attended Miss Winn , drew Mrs. Wallis aside , and assured her there was a very great change for the ...
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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.