Claude Spencer, and Waddles1869 - 16 pages |
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... kissed the boy saying , " Be a good boy , Claude , until I come again . " ' Must I stay here dear papa ? " earnestly en- quired the child ; as he looked with an anxious , almost frightened look round the strange room . " Yes , Claude my ...
... kissed the boy saying , " Be a good boy , Claude , until I come again . " ' Must I stay here dear papa ? " earnestly en- quired the child ; as he looked with an anxious , almost frightened look round the strange room . " Yes , Claude my ...
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... kisses ; this would soon have won over that little heart . But , no ! Mrs. Wallis was a managing woman . She did not believe in indulging children , and as for taking them up in her arms , that was not to be thought of . Perhaps she had ...
... kisses ; this would soon have won over that little heart . But , no ! Mrs. Wallis was a managing woman . She did not believe in indulging children , and as for taking them up in her arms , that was not to be thought of . Perhaps she had ...
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... kiss had lingered on those cherub lips . No father's fond " God bless my pets , " had soothed those little souls to rest . No , far from home , and every familiar face , they had cried themselves to sleep . And now the cold hard figure ...
... kiss had lingered on those cherub lips . No father's fond " God bless my pets , " had soothed those little souls to rest . No , far from home , and every familiar face , they had cried themselves to sleep . And now the cold hard figure ...
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... kiss upon the face of the still unconscious boy . Again and again she pressed those beautifully formed lips to her's , whilst tears fell thick and fast down her dirty face , leaving broad channels in their course . " Mamma , dear mamma ...
... kiss upon the face of the still unconscious boy . Again and again she pressed those beautifully formed lips to her's , whilst tears fell thick and fast down her dirty face , leaving broad channels in their course . " Mamma , dear mamma ...
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... 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 little back attic ...
... 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 little back attic ...
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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.