The Old CommodoreRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863 - 311 pages |
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... duty . " She looked not up , but trembled excessively , and replied , " Who calls ? Is it a voice from heaven ? " But the same sweet tones answered her , though a little more tremulously , - " It is the call of the scriptures upon the ...
... duty . " She looked not up , but trembled excessively , and replied , " Who calls ? Is it a voice from heaven ? " But the same sweet tones answered her , though a little more tremulously , - " It is the call of the scriptures upon the ...
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... duty as a parent . The next evening Mr. Underdown rejoined Sir Octavius , and re- assured him of the safety of his sister . A few days afterwards , Underdown received a letter from his agent , acquainting him that , from an unknown hand ...
... duty as a parent . The next evening Mr. Underdown rejoined Sir Octavius , and re- assured him of the safety of his sister . A few days afterwards , Underdown received a letter from his agent , acquainting him that , from an unknown hand ...
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... duty permitted him to spend ashore , he was enraptured at the improvement his daughter made , encouraged to the utmost the growing attachment of the cousins , and always called them the little man and wife . Lady Astell , who was the ...
... duty permitted him to spend ashore , he was enraptured at the improvement his daughter made , encouraged to the utmost the growing attachment of the cousins , and always called them the little man and wife . Lady Astell , who was the ...
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... duty . I must look to it . I come home ; I examine him ; I ask him what he knows ; I am answered he has been learning humanity ; and when we come to the point , I find he knows no more about a compass than a cow . Do you call that ...
... duty . I must look to it . I come home ; I examine him ; I ask him what he knows ; I am answered he has been learning humanity ; and when we come to the point , I find he knows no more about a compass than a cow . Do you call that ...
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... duty on the tempestuous seas , without shrinking , without murmur , without complaint . 66 She has many sons , " groaned forth the disconsolate Lady Astell . But the Commodore heeded not this interruption , and proceeded thus : " If ...
... duty on the tempestuous seas , without shrinking , without murmur , without complaint . 66 She has many sons , " groaned forth the disconsolate Lady Astell . But the Commodore heeded not this interruption , and proceeded thus : " If ...
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