Vandeleur; or, Animal magnetism [by M. Pisani].1836 |
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... course , could they conceive any justifiable reason for their ladies ' wish to rove ; an she who married with the idea of favouring her handsome , but coun- try - bred husband , with her company during the summer months , enlivened by ...
... course , could they conceive any justifiable reason for their ladies ' wish to rove ; an she who married with the idea of favouring her handsome , but coun- try - bred husband , with her company during the summer months , enlivened by ...
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... course the domestic grievances of the Evelyns , like all other domestic griev- ances , soon escaped from their only legitimate bounds - namely , their own bosoms ; I will not even say - firesides . The gentleman who was in possession of ...
... course the domestic grievances of the Evelyns , like all other domestic griev- ances , soon escaped from their only legitimate bounds - namely , their own bosoms ; I will not even say - firesides . The gentleman who was in possession of ...
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... course , at all times , and in all circumstances , make their own way ; but how many minds , a degree or two lower in the scale , have , for want of judicious culture , and sufficient aliment and exercise , withered , and stagnated into ...
... course , at all times , and in all circumstances , make their own way ; but how many minds , a degree or two lower in the scale , have , for want of judicious culture , and sufficient aliment and exercise , withered , and stagnated into ...
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... course obliged to accept her as a speci- men of the sex . Still , that she was not a pleasing one , some instinctive feeling told him ; and he kept quietly but tenaciously aloof from her , as something more inexplicable to him than all ...
... course obliged to accept her as a speci- men of the sex . Still , that she was not a pleasing one , some instinctive feeling told him ; and he kept quietly but tenaciously aloof from her , as something more inexplicable to him than all ...
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... course of the first seven years she had vegetated at Beauton Park ever afforded the least surmise of her having even a negative will or wish of her own ; and it must be confessed that the occa- sion was sufficiently extraordinary ; -so ...
... course of the first seven years she had vegetated at Beauton Park ever afforded the least surmise of her having even a negative will or wish of her own ; and it must be confessed that the occa- sion was sufficiently extraordinary ; -so ...
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