Number Seventeen: A Novel, Volume 1Chatto and Windus, 1875 |
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... which followed on that year , had rendered her more precious still . Gervase Arnaud thought that he had made his mind up on every subject save one ; and on that one point he could get no information whatever . His wife NUMBER SEVENTEEN .
... which followed on that year , had rendered her more precious still . Gervase Arnaud thought that he had made his mind up on every subject save one ; and on that one point he could get no information whatever . His wife NUMBER SEVENTEEN .
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... thought , every sentiment , every hope in common ; but he wanted to know if there was any chance of their meeting after death . Rome said no , save under certain conditions , to which he would not submit . The Anglicans said , very ...
... thought , every sentiment , every hope in common ; but he wanted to know if there was any chance of their meeting after death . Rome said no , save under certain conditions , to which he would not submit . The Anglicans said , very ...
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... thought from this that she might be worse ; that she could write to him no longer . He got no word from her at all ; he dared not go to his own home at Llanavon , for the servants might tell him she was dead . He got out of the train at ...
... thought from this that she might be worse ; that she could write to him no longer . He got no word from her at all ; he dared not go to his own home at Llanavon , for the servants might tell him she was dead . He got out of the train at ...
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... thought that I would say nothing about it to I should not even have told you , any one . had you not surprised me in this way ; during the last fortnight I must have walked miles . ' ' But have you never asked Doctor W- ' said NUMBER ...
... thought that I would say nothing about it to I should not even have told you , any one . had you not surprised me in this way ; during the last fortnight I must have walked miles . ' ' But have you never asked Doctor W- ' said NUMBER ...
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... thought that the cool Drummond was one of the last men to make a foolish and clandestine marriage . Still he reflected that if one half of the world knew half of the follies committed by the other half , society would become impossible ...
... thought that the cool Drummond was one of the last men to make a foolish and clandestine marriage . Still he reflected that if one half of the world knew half of the follies committed by the other half , society would become impossible ...
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