Number Seventeen: A Novel, Volume 1Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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... child were thrown against a stone wall and killed ; and Lady Rhyader , after trembling for a year between this world and the next , became an ap- parently hopeless invalid . If Gervase had loved her before , he adored her now . The year ...
... child were thrown against a stone wall and killed ; and Lady Rhyader , after trembling for a year between this world and the next , became an ap- parently hopeless invalid . If Gervase had loved her before , he adored her now . The year ...
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... child just born should not suffer , in a pecuniary point of view . This determination was made just after the birth of Gervase's first child ; before the accident which made the now great house heirless . It was persevered in , most ...
... child just born should not suffer , in a pecuniary point of view . This determination was made just after the birth of Gervase's first child ; before the accident which made the now great house heirless . It was persevered in , most ...
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... child , the one born after his wife's recovery , was a boy of fourteen . The poor woman had from the first accepted her position most humbly : she thanked Lord Festiniog and Lord Rhyader most heartily for their assistance , pointed out ...
... child , the one born after his wife's recovery , was a boy of fourteen . The poor woman had from the first accepted her position most humbly : she thanked Lord Festiniog and Lord Rhyader most heartily for their assistance , pointed out ...
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A Novel Henry Kingsley. once child in Leghorn , and she was more than seen there by the family solicitor , young Mr. Drummond , who generally spent part of the long vacation there . He gave the most excellent account of her beauty , her ...
A Novel Henry Kingsley. once child in Leghorn , and she was more than seen there by the family solicitor , young Mr. Drummond , who generally spent part of the long vacation there . He gave the most excellent account of her beauty , her ...
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... child , but she was told that it was dangerous for him to come near her . The necessity for breaking the truth to her came at last . The child had caught the fever from her and had died . She relapsed into delirium , and imbeci- lity ...
... child , but she was told that it was dangerous for him to come near her . The necessity for breaking the truth to her came at last . The child had caught the fever from her and had died . She relapsed into delirium , and imbeci- lity ...
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