Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 4Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1852 Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... mother . It was un- derstood that if he had his rights , he would be worth twenty thousand a year . And that if his mother ever met his father , she would shoot him with a silver pistol which she carried , always loaded to the muzzle ...
... mother . It was un- derstood that if he had his rights , he would be worth twenty thousand a year . And that if his mother ever met his father , she would shoot him with a silver pistol which she carried , always loaded to the muzzle ...
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... mothers envied his mother , and fa- thers his father ; and maidens who beheld him grew faint with admiration , and loved as hope- lessly as if he had been the brightest star of heaven . For he did not incline to such thoughts , and had ...
... mothers envied his mother , and fa- thers his father ; and maidens who beheld him grew faint with admiration , and loved as hope- lessly as if he had been the brightest star of heaven . For he did not incline to such thoughts , and had ...
Page 77
... mother's side , and sitting down , told her of all he had seen and all he felt , beseeching her to advise him and pre- dict good fortune to him . Fatoumeh , the mother of Gadallah , was a wise woman , and understood that his case was ...
... mother's side , and sitting down , told her of all he had seen and all he felt , beseeching her to advise him and pre- dict good fortune to him . Fatoumeh , the mother of Gadallah , was a wise woman , and understood that his case was ...
Page 83
... mother has about eighty pounds a year in her own right , and with that pittance , helped by self - privation , unfelt because endured for her darling boy , she gave me a sufficient education , and fitted me out respectably ; when ...
... mother has about eighty pounds a year in her own right , and with that pittance , helped by self - privation , unfelt because endured for her darling boy , she gave me a sufficient education , and fitted me out respectably ; when ...
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... mother's doings . Him 1 my first letter brought the surprising intelligence half - killed ; but it is needless to go into details that Mrs. Redstone had become quite reconciled of the frantic violence with which I conducted to our ...
... mother's doings . Him 1 my first letter brought the surprising intelligence half - killed ; but it is needless to go into details that Mrs. Redstone had become quite reconciled of the frantic violence with which I conducted to our ...
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