Dilemmas of Pride, Volume 1Bull and Churton, Holles street., 1833 |
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... while the large tears were falling from his sightless eyes . The brothers Willoughby and Alfred , and their three sisters , all seemingly attracted by the same object , issued one by one , from DILEMMAS OF PRIDE . 15.
... while the large tears were falling from his sightless eyes . The brothers Willoughby and Alfred , and their three sisters , all seemingly attracted by the same object , issued one by one , from DILEMMAS OF PRIDE . 15.
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... sisters were young , handsome , and happy look . ing . Geoffery Arden still stood apart , as though there were but little fellowship of feeling be- tween him and the rest of the group . He was a lad of eighteen or nineteen before the ...
... sisters were young , handsome , and happy look . ing . Geoffery Arden still stood apart , as though there were but little fellowship of feeling be- tween him and the rest of the group . He was a lad of eighteen or nineteen before the ...
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... sisters , too , could always coax him out of any plan of pleasure of his own , and get him to go with them . Not so those for whom he had no particular affection ; he had never yet been known , in any one instance , to sa- crifice his ...
... sisters , too , could always coax him out of any plan of pleasure of his own , and get him to go with them . Not so those for whom he had no particular affection ; he had never yet been known , in any one instance , to sa- crifice his ...
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... sister that was a lady , they didn't believe a word of it ; for though you was always a talk- ing of Lady Arden coming , she never come . " " What impertinence ! Well , Lady Arden will be here this season to a certainty . She is to come ...
... sister that was a lady , they didn't believe a word of it ; for though you was always a talk- ing of Lady Arden coming , she never come . " " What impertinence ! Well , Lady Arden will be here this season to a certainty . She is to come ...
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... sister , Lady Arden , comes , and her three beautiful daughters , they will of course have all the young men in Cheltenham about them ; so that I shall be acquainted with them all ; and I shall take care they shall not be in the dark ...
... sister , Lady Arden , comes , and her three beautiful daughters , they will of course have all the young men in Cheltenham about them ; so that I shall be acquainted with them all ; and I shall take care they shall not be in the dark ...
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