At the MooringsMacmillan, 1906 - 451 páginas |
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... once amused and friendly ; and at that moment Betty's keen girlish glance detected the grease stains and the thin turned breadths of faded silk , and she noticed the lace trimmings were decidedly rusty . Yes , she was poor - terribly ...
... once amused and friendly ; and at that moment Betty's keen girlish glance detected the grease stains and the thin turned breadths of faded silk , and she noticed the lace trimmings were decidedly rusty . Yes , she was poor - terribly ...
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... once said that you might as well endeavour to plant flowers on a rock as to disguise the one stupendous reality " by mere meretricious word - embroidery . " Betty opened her eyes rather widely at this speech . She even drew in her ...
... once said that you might as well endeavour to plant flowers on a rock as to disguise the one stupendous reality " by mere meretricious word - embroidery . " Betty opened her eyes rather widely at this speech . She even drew in her ...
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... once told his sister privately that he liked the way Betty did her hair , it was so nice and crinkly . ' Betty did not understand music in the least unless it were tuney , as she phrased it : to her it was a grand unknown language that ...
... once told his sister privately that he liked the way Betty did her hair , it was so nice and crinkly . ' Betty did not understand music in the least unless it were tuney , as she phrased it : to her it was a grand unknown language that ...
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... once said , in her painstaking English , to a congenial spirit , a warm - hearted Irish- woman , who lived near , ' service rightly understood is not unlike matrimony : it is for better or for worse— and it is oftener for worse ...
... once said , in her painstaking English , to a congenial spirit , a warm - hearted Irish- woman , who lived near , ' service rightly understood is not unlike matrimony : it is for better or for worse— and it is oftener for worse ...
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... once this evening , Sheila ? ' he said , after a short silence , only broken by Kaiser's sonorous snores ; ' I was wondering if we were not making a mistake in avoid- ing society so completely . We are becoming perfect hermits . Why ...
... once this evening , Sheila ? ' he said , after a short silence , only broken by Kaiser's sonorous snores ; ' I was wondering if we were not making a mistake in avoid- ing society so completely . We are becoming perfect hermits . Why ...
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