Fraud and friendship: or, The orphan and the foundling of the king's printing-house, by the author of 'Jessie Melville'.1857 |
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... child , thinner , paler , and more emaciated than herself . Over that mother and child bent a man , in a wild agony of grief and sorrow . He was gazing with burning , tearless eyes on his boy - his little suffering boy - as it lay upon ...
... child , thinner , paler , and more emaciated than herself . Over that mother and child bent a man , in a wild agony of grief and sorrow . He was gazing with burning , tearless eyes on his boy - his little suffering boy - as it lay upon ...
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... child ! I - I fear I have not strength to carry it so far , " said the trembling mother . " No , no ; give him to me . I will watch over him till your return . " And the distracted father held out his arms to receive the infant . Slowly ...
... child ! I - I fear I have not strength to carry it so far , " said the trembling mother . " No , no ; give him to me . I will watch over him till your return . " And the distracted father held out his arms to receive the infant . Slowly ...
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... child struggle with the throes of death , till even from the father's heart a prayer went up to heaven that the sufferer might be released . That in prayer was mercy answered . After a minute's intense agony , the form grew motionless ...
... child struggle with the throes of death , till even from the father's heart a prayer went up to heaven that the sufferer might be released . That in prayer was mercy answered . After a minute's intense agony , the form grew motionless ...
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... contents . With eyes nearly starting from their sockets , he read the long letter to an end , and learned for the first time that his brother had left a wife and - child a boy , who was , of course 1 * FRAUD AND FRIENDSHIP .
... contents . With eyes nearly starting from their sockets , he read the long letter to an end , and learned for the first time that his brother had left a wife and - child a boy , who was , of course 1 * FRAUD AND FRIENDSHIP .
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... child was in existence , his brother's child , born in lawful wedlock ; and it was he who was the proper heir to that princely mansion , the fertile farms which surrounded it , and the handsome building in George Square , to which the ...
... child was in existence , his brother's child , born in lawful wedlock ; and it was he who was the proper heir to that princely mansion , the fertile farms which surrounded it , and the handsome building in George Square , to which the ...
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