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... English boy , destined for the sea and as wild as a colt , not being the kind of thing specially desired by a nervous woman in a small foreign apartment , with a couple of showy- looking daughters to dress and marry . By which it had ...
... English boy , destined for the sea and as wild as a colt , not being the kind of thing specially desired by a nervous woman in a small foreign apartment , with a couple of showy- looking daughters to dress and marry . By which it had ...
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... English enough ; but the meaning of them ? For all the essential pur- poses of language he was speaking to her in a foreign tongue ; and her face betrayed her per- plexity . He caught her look and it pleased him . It seemed to confess ...
... English enough ; but the meaning of them ? For all the essential pur- poses of language he was speaking to her in a foreign tongue ; and her face betrayed her per- plexity . He caught her look and it pleased him . It seemed to confess ...
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... English style . The services were conducted in what they called “ a proper and decent manner . " There was no eccle- siastical vagueness at Milltown , no tampering with the unclean thing in any way . Extreme opinions were tabooed , to ...
... English style . The services were conducted in what they called “ a proper and decent manner . " There was no eccle- siastical vagueness at Milltown , no tampering with the unclean thing in any way . Extreme opinions were tabooed , to ...
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... English - English to the backbone ; and as England was to its mind the Delos of the religious as well as of the social and political world , and as the Thirty - nine Articles were nourish- ment enough for the most hungry soul , any line ...
... English - English to the backbone ; and as England was to its mind the Delos of the religious as well as of the social and political world , and as the Thirty - nine Articles were nourish- ment enough for the most hungry soul , any line ...
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... English social order and political righteousness . The shopkeepers were the fitting pendants to the gentry . They were of noticeably bland and re- spectful manners ; did not trouble themselves with public questions , which they left to ...
... English social order and political righteousness . The shopkeepers were the fitting pendants to the gentry . They were of noticeably bland and re- spectful manners ; did not trouble themselves with public questions , which they left to ...
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