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... took pupils to eke out a scanty income , and who lived inland three miles over the hill , coming into Barsands only for an alternate Sunday service , and when he did come addressing empty benches - for the Wesleyans had got the majority ...
... took pupils to eke out a scanty income , and who lived inland three miles over the hill , coming into Barsands only for an alternate Sunday service , and when he did come addressing empty benches - for the Wesleyans had got the majority ...
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... took care that they should be paying parts . Not one of them was his own master yet , not one married or in his own home . Two worked on the farm and got jour- neyman's wages , no more ; one helped in the house , brewed , kept the ...
... took care that they should be paying parts . Not one of them was his own master yet , not one married or in his own home . Two worked on the farm and got jour- neyman's wages , no more ; one helped in the house , brewed , kept the ...
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... took it that they had made a 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 ...
... took it that they had made a 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 ...
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... took the thought to heart , and racked his brains night and day to discover what it was Patricia ought to have to perfect her education and condition " the cats " being of no more good - and when he had found it he would give it , let ...
... took the thought to heart , and racked his brains night and day to discover what it was Patricia ought to have to perfect her education and condition " the cats " being of no more good - and when he had found it he would give it , let ...
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... took enormous proportions , and a diffi- culty of decision became a moral burden grievously oppressive with a sense of responsibility , though never making him downcast nor ill - tempered . Sitting there in the porch , touched by the ...
... took enormous proportions , and a diffi- culty of decision became a moral burden grievously oppressive with a sense of responsibility , though never making him downcast nor ill - tempered . Sitting there in the porch , touched by the ...
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