The Barber's Chair: And The Hedgehog LettersChatto and Windus, 1874 - 327 pages |
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... there's nothing so little as doesn't eat up something as is smaller than itself . " One week , a poor babe is picked up in a basket , on a doorstep the same week the papers have an account of the betrothal of the young Queen of Spain to ...
... there's nothing so little as doesn't eat up something as is smaller than itself . " One week , a poor babe is picked up in a basket , on a doorstep the same week the papers have an account of the betrothal of the young Queen of Spain to ...
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... there ever is . If an earthquake was to swallow up London to - morrow , you'd say , " There's nothin ' in the paper only the earthquake . " Nutts . The fact is , Mr Nightflit , I've had so much news in my time , I've lost the flavour of ...
... there ever is . If an earthquake was to swallow up London to - morrow , you'd say , " There's nothin ' in the paper only the earthquake . " Nutts . The fact is , Mr Nightflit , I've had so much news in my time , I've lost the flavour of ...
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... There you go agin , Nutts : always biting at human natur . It's only that we ' re used to you , else I don't know ... There's another bite ! Why , Nutts , you don't believe good of nobody . What a cannibal you are ! It's my belief you ...
... There you go agin , Nutts : always biting at human natur . It's only that we ' re used to you , else I don't know ... There's another bite ! Why , Nutts , you don't believe good of nobody . What a cannibal you are ! It's my belief you ...
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... there's Tory lying all along the hearth , and looking as innocent as though you might shut him up in a dairy with nothin ' but his word and honour . Well , when he kills a mouse , he makes hardly any noise about it . But this I will say ...
... there's Tory lying all along the hearth , and looking as innocent as though you might shut him up in a dairy with nothin ' but his word and honour . Well , when he kills a mouse , he makes hardly any noise about it . But this I will say ...
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... there instead . Next to being on the top of a arch , the best thing , they say , is to be under it . Besides , there's economy . For Mr Hume has summed it up ; and in two hundred years , five weeks , two days , and three hours , the ...
... there instead . Next to being on the top of a arch , the best thing , they say , is to be under it . Besides , there's economy . For Mr Hume has summed it up ; and in two hundred years , five weeks , two days , and three hours , the ...
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