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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... hours , diet , and occupation , he was what is termed quite respectable . It was his moral being that was so debased . Principle he had none ; but the want of principle does not necessarily make the hair soon grey , or cause an early ...
... hours , diet , and occupation , he was what is termed quite respectable . It was his moral being that was so debased . Principle he had none ; but the want of principle does not necessarily make the hair soon grey , or cause an early ...
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... hour he considered he was . And though the world still considered him to be so , a 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 ...
... hour he considered he was . And though the world still considered him to be so , a 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 ...
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... hour of prayer and mercy are alike past , " she exclaimed , in a hollow , awful voice . " I plead no more ; even a mother's voice is hushed for her child . But the curtain of the future rises before me , and your dark fate is revealed ...
... hour of prayer and mercy are alike past , " she exclaimed , in a hollow , awful voice . " I plead no more ; even a mother's voice is hushed for her child . But the curtain of the future rises before me , and your dark fate is revealed ...
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... hour at most , perhaps sooner , I shall be dead . Quick , dearest , give me my child , while I have strength to look upon him . " Fanny , I said he was asleep . " " But I will hold him very gently , so that he shall not awake . O , a ...
... hour at most , perhaps sooner , I shall be dead . Quick , dearest , give me my child , while I have strength to look upon him . " Fanny , I said he was asleep . " " But I will hold him very gently , so that he shall not awake . O , a ...
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... hour of dark bereavement , the soft , and tender , and generous part of his nature , and gathered up into one central group the fiercer passions of his human soul . For one purpose he was henceforth to live , by one principle he would ...
... hour of dark bereavement , the soft , and tender , and generous part of his nature , and gathered up into one central group the fiercer passions of his human soul . For one purpose he was henceforth to live , by one principle he would ...
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