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... week . Roxy remained in charge of the children . She had her own way , for Mr. Driscoll soon absorbed himself in his speculations and left her to her own devices . In that same month of February , Dawson's Land- ing gained a new citizen ...
... week . Roxy remained in charge of the children . She had her own way , for Mr. Driscoll soon absorbed himself in his speculations and left her to her own devices . In that same month of February , Dawson's Land- ing gained a new citizen ...
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... - body . Within a week he had lost his first name ; Pudd'nhead took its place . In time he came to be liked , and well liked , too ; but by that time the nick . name had got well stuck on , and it stayed 2 Pudd'nhead Wilson 12.
... - body . Within a week he had lost his first name ; Pudd'nhead took its place . In time he came to be liked , and well liked , too ; but by that time the nick . name had got well stuck on , and it stayed 2 Pudd'nhead Wilson 12.
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... , but by no means to be wrested into a precedent ; no , a week or two would limber up her piety , then she would be rational again , and the next two dollars that got left out in the cold would find a comforter - 20 Pudd'nhead Wilson.
... , but by no means to be wrested into a precedent ; no , a week or two would limber up her piety , then she would be rational again , and the next two dollars that got left out in the cold would find a comforter - 20 Pudd'nhead Wilson.
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... weeks . Before they got back Roxy had paid her visit to Wilson , and was satisfied . Wilson took the finger - prints , labeled them with the names and with the date- October the first - put them carefully away and continued his chat ...
... weeks . Before they got back Roxy had paid her visit to Wilson , and was satisfied . Wilson took the finger - prints , labeled them with the names and with the date- October the first - put them carefully away and continued his chat ...
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... weekly discussions were now the old lawyer's main interest in life . Pudd'nhead was still toiling in obscurity at the bottom of the ladder , under the blight of that unlucky remark which he had let fall twenty - three years before about ...
... weekly discussions were now the old lawyer's main interest in life . Pudd'nhead was still toiling in obscurity at the bottom of the ladder , under the blight of that unlucky remark which he had let fall twenty - three years before about ...
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Página 233 - ... doing all he could to reform his brother, the other half, who never got any satisfaction out of drinking, anyway, because liquor never affected him. Yes, here she was, stranded with that deep injustice of hers torturing her poor torn heart. I didn't know what to do with her. I was as sorry for her as anybody could be, but the campaign was over, the book was finished, she was sidetracked, and there was no possible way of crowding her in, anywhere. I could not leave her there, of course; it would...
Página 23 - To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a negro. She was a slave, and salable as such. Her child was thirty-one parts white, and he, too, was a slave, and by a fiction of law and custom a negro.
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