The Old CommodoreRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863 - 311 pages |
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... natural curve by many years of habitual frowning , and constantly peering through a spy- glass , gives that region of his face a look that we might almost call terrible . The mouth is large , with fine teeth ; but the lower part of the ...
... natural curve by many years of habitual frowning , and constantly peering through a spy- glass , gives that region of his face a look that we might almost call terrible . The mouth is large , with fine teeth ; but the lower part of the ...
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... nature of the apart- ment would permit , sate his maiden sister , Miss Matilda Bacuissart , a beauty , but something more than a matured - a fading one . She was slight , delicate , and forty - five - and all her existence was now ...
... nature of the apart- ment would permit , sate his maiden sister , Miss Matilda Bacuissart , a beauty , but something more than a matured - a fading one . She was slight , delicate , and forty - five - and all her existence was now ...
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... natural dignity or to supernatural inspiration . But the tyrant of Trestletree Hall resembled neither of these - nor was she a termagant old harridan , privileged by expected thou- sands to be eminently disagreeable . Dear reader , she ...
... natural dignity or to supernatural inspiration . But the tyrant of Trestletree Hall resembled neither of these - nor was she a termagant old harridan , privileged by expected thou- sands to be eminently disagreeable . Dear reader , she ...
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... nature . Unperceived by the Commodore , who is smoking , -by Mr. Underdown , who is writing , and her aunt , the quiet Matilda , who is working - she has divested her taper though uncon- fined waist of its long and broad red sash , and ...
... nature . Unperceived by the Commodore , who is smoking , -by Mr. Underdown , who is writing , and her aunt , the quiet Matilda , who is working - she has divested her taper though uncon- fined waist of its long and broad red sash , and ...
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... nature , for the last five or six years : and thus , though there was a lovely girl and an heiress within his doors , it is true that , as yet , the young post - captain had appeared more to admire the outside architecture of ...
... nature , for the last five or six years : and thus , though there was a lovely girl and an heiress within his doors , it is true that , as yet , the young post - captain had appeared more to admire the outside architecture of ...
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