Dilemmas of Pride, Volume 1Bull and Churton, Holles street., 1833 |
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... already said it was near midnight : the day had been spent in festivities , held to celebrate the coming of age of Sir Willoughby Arden , now ( his father having been sometime dead , ) the head of the ancient family to whom the property ...
... already said it was near midnight : the day had been spent in festivities , held to celebrate the coming of age of Sir Willoughby Arden , now ( his father having been sometime dead , ) the head of the ancient family to whom the property ...
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... already noticed , and which were highly ornamental to the landscape , being all pertaining of city scenery , which was visible over the tops of the trees . The clocks of some of the churches now began to strike . A spell at the instant ...
... already noticed , and which were highly ornamental to the landscape , being all pertaining of city scenery , which was visible over the tops of the trees . The clocks of some of the churches now began to strike . A spell at the instant ...
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... already described , floated before her eyes , even after their lids were closed ; and when she slept , the vision still blended with her dreams , as did the forms of the Baron and his two sons , described in the legend of the castle ...
... already described , floated before her eyes , even after their lids were closed ; and when she slept , the vision still blended with her dreams , as did the forms of the Baron and his two sons , described in the legend of the castle ...
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... the persuasions of idle companions ; so that he was already respected as well as regarded by thinking and discerning men much older than himself ; some of them too , men who had bought their experience dearly enough DILEMMAS OF PRIDE . 23.
... the persuasions of idle companions ; so that he was already respected as well as regarded by thinking and discerning men much older than himself ; some of them too , men who had bought their experience dearly enough DILEMMAS OF PRIDE . 23.
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... already described , ex cited , despite the cooler suggestions of reason , a feeling as though the gentle appeal were ad- dressed to him in particular . What was there so entreated that he would not have undertaken ? The most difficult ...
... already described , ex cited , despite the cooler suggestions of reason , a feeling as though the gentle appeal were ad- dressed to him in particular . What was there so entreated that he would not have undertaken ? The most difficult ...
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