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... PRETTY KETTLE OF FISH 106 XIII . IN WHICH THE PRINCE MARCHES UP THE HILL AND DOWN AGAIN . XIV . ARMA VIRUMQUE XV . MELPOMENE SOLDIER'S RETURN XVI . IN WHICH HARRY LIVES TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY XVII . XVIII . IN WHICH WE GO A - COURTING XIX ...
... PRETTY KETTLE OF FISH 106 XIII . IN WHICH THE PRINCE MARCHES UP THE HILL AND DOWN AGAIN . XIV . ARMA VIRUMQUE XV . MELPOMENE SOLDIER'S RETURN XVI . IN WHICH HARRY LIVES TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY XVII . XVIII . IN WHICH WE GO A - COURTING XIX ...
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... pretty business , my Lady Warrington ! " cries Sir Miles . " Here's a wonderful wonder of wonders , girls ! " " For goodness ' sake , gentlemen , what is your intelligence ? " asks the virtuous matron . " The whole town's talking about ...
... pretty business , my Lady Warrington ! " cries Sir Miles . " Here's a wonderful wonder of wonders , girls ! " " For goodness ' sake , gentlemen , what is your intelligence ? " asks the virtuous matron . " The whole town's talking about ...
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... pretty good friends . If I could be exchanged , or sent home , I told him that my mother would pay liberally for my ransom ; and I suppose this idea excited the cupidity of the commandant , for a trapper coming in the winter , whilst I ...
... pretty good friends . If I could be exchanged , or sent home , I told him that my mother would pay liberally for my ransom ; and I suppose this idea excited the cupidity of the commandant , for a trapper coming in the winter , whilst I ...
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... pretty well , I made drawings of the soldiers of the garrison , and of the half - breed and her child ( Museau's child ) , and of Museau himself , whom , I am ashamed to say , I flattered outrageously ; and there was an old guitar left ...
... pretty well , I made drawings of the soldiers of the garrison , and of the half - breed and her child ( Museau's child ) , and of Museau himself , whom , I am ashamed to say , I flattered outrageously ; and there was an old guitar left ...
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... pretty field or two in your native country ? You can have it for a ransom of me , if you will but let me go . In a few months you must be superseded in your command here , and then adieu the crowns and the fields in Normandy ! You had ...
... pretty field or two in your native country ? You can have it for a ransom of me , if you will but let me go . In a few months you must be superseded in your command here , and then adieu the crowns and the fields in Normandy ! You had ...
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