Romance: A NovelDoubleday, 1931 - 541 pages |
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... face with the colour and texture of a white - heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed every- thing , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the colour of a wrinkled pippin . It was the ...
... face with the colour and texture of a white - heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed every- thing , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the colour of a wrinkled pippin . It was the ...
Page 415
... face passing into a ghastly grin , that disappeared slowly , while his astonished eyes , glaring at that gaunt and dishevelled apparition rising before him in the dusk of the passage , seemed to grow to an enormous size . He drew back ...
... face passing into a ghastly grin , that disappeared slowly , while his astonished eyes , glaring at that gaunt and dishevelled apparition rising before him in the dusk of the passage , seemed to grow to an enormous size . He drew back ...
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... face lengthened a little . " Not seen him . But I found one of the duke's secretaries , a pleasant young fellow not such as we used to be . But the duke was kind enough to interest himself . Perhaps my name has lived in the land . I was ...
... face lengthened a little . " Not seen him . But I found one of the duke's secretaries , a pleasant young fellow not such as we used to be . But the duke was kind enough to interest himself . Perhaps my name has lived in the land . I was ...
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