Number Seventeen: A Novel, Volume 1Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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... father , at one time . Scarcely divided by one year in age , they were as distant as the poles , both in pursuits and in character . Gervase the elder , began life as a solemn and pensive baby , who at his christening attended ...
... father , at one time . Scarcely divided by one year in age , they were as distant as the poles , both in pursuits and in character . Gervase the elder , began life as a solemn and pensive baby , who at his christening attended ...
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... head of the house a widower ; and after that event no one could do any- thing with the younger son , save his father and his brother . To these two people , and to these alone ( save possibly the colonel of his 2 NUMBER SEVENTEEN .
... head of the house a widower ; and after that event no one could do any- thing with the younger son , save his father and his brother . To these two people , and to these alone ( save possibly the colonel of his 2 NUMBER SEVENTEEN .
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... father and brother , who were both crazy about their pedigree , were proud of him . The father would say : ' He is a real De Barri , the inexorable spirit of Giraldus Cambrensis is alive in him ; ' and the brother would 6 say , It is ...
... father and brother , who were both crazy about their pedigree , were proud of him . The father would say : ' He is a real De Barri , the inexorable spirit of Giraldus Cambrensis is alive in him ; ' and the brother would 6 say , It is ...
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... father would say , as he saw them coming home arm in arm , ' nothing will separate those two , except a woman . ' The war came , blazed up , burnt low , blazed up again , and then died out . Iltyd was all through it and behaved with ...
... father would say , as he saw them coming home arm in arm , ' nothing will separate those two , except a woman . ' The war came , blazed up , burnt low , blazed up again , and then died out . Iltyd was all through it and behaved with ...
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... father of our two young gentlemen , at once went to give such consolation to his cousin as he could ; and he urged him strongly to marry again . The old man , with the obstinacy of the Rhys family crossed through endless generations ...
... father of our two young gentlemen , at once went to give such consolation to his cousin as he could ; and he urged him strongly to marry again . The old man , with the obstinacy of the Rhys family crossed through endless generations ...
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