The Laurel Bush: An Old-fashioned Love StoryMacmillan & Company, 1890 - 264 pages |
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... thought of , but a rough receptacle , where , the house being a good way off , letters might be deposited , instead of , as hitherto , in a hole B in the trunk , near the foot of the tree IT was a very ugly bush indeed; that is...
... thought of , but a rough receptacle , where , the house being a good way off , letters might be deposited , instead of , as hitherto , in a hole B in the trunk , near the foot of the tree IT was a very ugly bush indeed; that is...
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... thought of them again . They were mere machines - servants to whom she paid their wages , and so that they did suf- ficient service to deserve these wages , she never interfered with them , nor indeed wasted a moment's consideration ...
... thought of them again . They were mere machines - servants to whom she paid their wages , and so that they did suf- ficient service to deserve these wages , she never interfered with them , nor indeed wasted a moment's consideration ...
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... thought , must have been something not unlike Robert Roy . Such men are rare , but they do exist ; and it was Fortune's lot , or she believed it was , to have found one . That was enough . She went along the shining sands in a dream of ...
... thought , must have been something not unlike Robert Roy . Such men are rare , but they do exist ; and it was Fortune's lot , or she believed it was , to have found one . That was enough . She went along the shining sands in a dream of ...
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... thought she had not looked it ; but he answered , " Never mind why . I do wish it , and I will be rich yet , if I can . Are you very much surprised ? " Surprised she certainly was , but she answered honestly , " Indeed you are the last ...
... thought she had not looked it ; but he answered , " Never mind why . I do wish it , and I will be rich yet , if I can . Are you very much surprised ? " Surprised she certainly was , but she answered honestly , " Indeed you are the last ...
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... thought it was nothing - that terrible yes or no , which to her made all the difference of living or only half living , of feeling the sun in or out of the world . What could she answer ? Trem- bling violently , she yet answered in a ...
... thought it was nothing - that terrible yes or no , which to her made all the difference of living or only half living , of feeling the sun in or out of the world . What could she answer ? Trem- bling violently , she yet answered in a ...
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