Claude Spencer, and Waddles1869 - 16 pages |
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... look upon during the lifetime of his wife , as the best behaved , and most affectionate of children . But now she was gone , who was there to settle all their childish differences , to overlook little faults and 8 Claude Spencer .
... look upon during the lifetime of his wife , as the best behaved , and most affectionate of children . But now she was gone , who was there to settle all their childish differences , to overlook little faults and 8 Claude Spencer .
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... be surprised then , if , after constantly hearing them spoken of as the most obstinate , naughty children in existence , he began to look upon them as such ? CHAPTER II . " And shouted but once more aloud Claude Spencer . 9.
... be surprised then , if , after constantly hearing them spoken of as the most obstinate , naughty children in existence , he began to look upon them as such ? CHAPTER II . " And shouted but once more aloud Claude Spencer . 9.
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... look out for something to do , that would prevent her breaking into her little capital , and not give her much extra trouble . Miss Elizabeth Winn , her maiden sister , had come to reside with her , hoping to find a quiet , comfortable ...
... look out for something to do , that would prevent her breaking into her little capital , and not give her much extra trouble . Miss Elizabeth Winn , her maiden sister , had come to reside with her , hoping to find a quiet , comfortable ...
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... look round the strange room . " Yes , Claude my boy ; you must , and you will try to do right , and be a good boy . " " Yes , pa , " quietly answered he . " And my little girls will be good , I know , " continued Mr. Spencer , as he ...
... look round the strange room . " Yes , Claude my boy ; you must , and you will try to do right , and be a good boy . " " Yes , pa , " quietly answered he . " And my little girls will be good , I know , " continued Mr. Spencer , as he ...
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... look upon me . ” Claude raised his dark bright eyes , and looked very earnestly at her for some time , then said , " I am sure you shall not be my mamma , my dear mamma has gone to Heaven ; and she was not a bit like you , for she was ...
... look upon me . ” Claude raised his dark bright eyes , and looked very earnestly at her for some time , then said , " I am sure you shall not be my mamma , my dear mamma has gone to Heaven ; and she was not a bit like you , for she was ...
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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.