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... Cranforth , in the county of Kent , somewhere about the year 1835. His father was the incumbent of Cranforth , a living of very small value . As Harry was one of a family of twelve ( by the bye how is it that clergymen always have ...
... Cranforth , in the county of Kent , somewhere about the year 1835. His father was the incumbent of Cranforth , a living of very small value . As Harry was one of a family of twelve ( by the bye how is it that clergymen always have ...
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... Cranforth Vicarage when the good vicar , calling all his family down into the pretty , cheerful - looking sitting - room , read them from the Gazette the following announce- ment , " Dragoons - Bennett Leslie , gent . , to be cornet by ...
... Cranforth Vicarage when the good vicar , calling all his family down into the pretty , cheerful - looking sitting - room , read them from the Gazette the following announce- ment , " Dragoons - Bennett Leslie , gent . , to be cornet by ...
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... Cran- forth , when the uniform having arrived from Davis's the young cornet put it on for the first time , to the immense ... Cranforth tradition for years to come , such a sensation did the noble - looking young soldier , in his ...
... Cran- forth , when the uniform having arrived from Davis's the young cornet put it on for the first time , to the immense ... Cranforth tradition for years to come , such a sensation did the noble - looking young soldier , in his ...
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... Cranforth Vicarage , Harry being most anxious to introduce his dear friend to his family : -for Harry was as blind a worshipper of Leslie now as when they were at Eton together ; and to do Leslie justice , he carefully concealed all his ...
... Cranforth Vicarage , Harry being most anxious to introduce his dear friend to his family : -for Harry was as blind a worshipper of Leslie now as when they were at Eton together ; and to do Leslie justice , he carefully concealed all his ...
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... Cranforth Vicarage , to get his father to talk lovingly and seriously with him on the subject , feeling sure that no one could resist the good old man's eloquence when on that holy theme . Harry had from time to time written home such ...
... Cranforth Vicarage , to get his father to talk lovingly and seriously with him on the subject , feeling sure that no one could resist the good old man's eloquence when on that holy theme . Harry had from time to time written home such ...
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