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... dead weights on the woman's hands in those sorrowful days of thirty years ago , were now all parts of the clever mechanism of her life ; and she took care that they should be paying parts . Not one of them was his own master yet , not ...
... dead weights on the woman's hands in those sorrowful days of thirty years ago , were now all parts of the clever mechanism of her life ; and she took care that they should be paying parts . Not one of them was his own master yet , not ...
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... dead set at him ; and as he wanted nothing with any of them , and least of all with Miss Matilda , he resented their attentions as indelicate , burglarious , and unfair . So there was war between the two houses ; and it told well for ...
... dead set at him ; and as he wanted nothing with any of them , and least of all with Miss Matilda , he resented their attentions as indelicate , burglarious , and unfair . So there was war between the two houses ; and it told well for ...
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... dead father's , only sister ; but since her marriage with Jabez Hamley , the rich brewer of Milltown and possessor of Abbey Holme , which had re- lieved him from the necessity of her further support , she had kept up very little ...
... dead father's , only sister ; but since her marriage with Jabez Hamley , the rich brewer of Milltown and possessor of Abbey Holme , which had re- lieved him from the necessity of her further support , she had kept up very little ...
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... dead , and gone for ever from her . It was so vivid , she felt as if she could have touched him . With a kind of startled cry she put up her hands to her face , and broke into sobs with a strange and bitter pain . If her uncle had seen ...
... dead , and gone for ever from her . It was so vivid , she felt as if she could have touched him . With a kind of startled cry she put up her hands to her face , and broke into sobs with a strange and bitter pain . If her uncle had seen ...
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... dead loves , no sorrows , no sighings about earth and sky to - day . It might have been the first day of creation , for its sense of buoyant freshness to her - the first hour of time when was no Past with its tears and funeral faces ...
... dead loves , no sorrows , no sighings about earth and sky to - day . It might have been the first day of creation , for its sense of buoyant freshness to her - the first hour of time when was no Past with its tears and funeral faces ...
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