Claude Spencer, and Waddles1869 - 16 pages |
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... saying , " Come forward , sir ! How dare you give us all so much trouble ? " The child drew nearer , until he stood close to his enraged parent . " Now , sir , " began Mr. Spencer , " I'll make you promise to be a better boy ; or I'll ...
... saying , " Come forward , sir ! How dare you give us all so much trouble ? " The child drew nearer , until he stood close to his enraged parent . " Now , sir , " began Mr. Spencer , " I'll make you promise to be a better boy ; or I'll ...
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... 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 boy ; you must ...
... 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 boy ; you must ...
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... saying , " She knew they would be very happy when they found he was really gone . " So resolutely shutting his ears , and heart to their passionate entreaties , to be " taken home , " he jumped into his carriage , and drove off at a ...
... saying , " She knew they would be very happy when they found he was really gone . " So resolutely shutting his ears , and heart to their passionate entreaties , to be " taken home , " he jumped into his carriage , and drove off at a ...
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... eyes , and were very quiet at tea ; but I am afraid they were thinking more of the promised treat of " mice and kittens , " than of anything Mrs. Wallis was saying . CHAPTER III . " Oh ! where's our own dear 16 Claude Spencer .
... eyes , and were very quiet at tea ; but I am afraid they were thinking more of the promised treat of " mice and kittens , " than of anything Mrs. Wallis was saying . CHAPTER III . " Oh ! where's our own dear 16 Claude Spencer .
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... saying- " Don't lose it , oh ! please don't , or I shall not have anything left Ma gave me . ” Mrs. Wallis took it , but made no promise . Now , she asked , " Have you given me all ? ” Claude assured her he had . Mrs. Wallis next ...
... saying- " Don't lose it , oh ! please don't , or I shall not have anything left Ma gave me . ” Mrs. Wallis took it , but made no promise . Now , she asked , " Have you given me all ? ” Claude assured her he had . Mrs. Wallis next ...
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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.