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... wedding breakfast - then perhaps Bennett Leslie's name might in after years have graced our biography of truly great and good men ; but alas ! with all these trials his newly- acquired religious impressions flew to the winds , and he ...
... wedding breakfast - then perhaps Bennett Leslie's name might in after years have graced our biography of truly great and good men ; but alas ! with all these trials his newly- acquired religious impressions flew to the winds , and he ...
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... wedding - day , who would be glad enough to barter their gold for your strawberry - leaves . " I have no moral doubt but that Monsieur le Comte would have entirely concurred in his prudent friend's opinion , and would at once have cut ...
... wedding - day , who would be glad enough to barter their gold for your strawberry - leaves . " I have no moral doubt but that Monsieur le Comte would have entirely concurred in his prudent friend's opinion , and would at once have cut ...
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... wedding each other ; " Mr Hope giving her and her husband a cottage on the estate rent free . Poor Sally's motto however was " Fidelis ad mortem , " and in spite of her vows at the altar to leave all else and cleave to her husband , I ...
... wedding each other ; " Mr Hope giving her and her husband a cottage on the estate rent free . Poor Sally's motto however was " Fidelis ad mortem , " and in spite of her vows at the altar to leave all else and cleave to her husband , I ...
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... wedding dress and two shrouds in the fire , but obstinately refusing to reveal the names of the respective wearers . Thus a whole month glided happily by , bring- ing with it few changes , excepting in the increas- ed weakness of ...
... wedding dress and two shrouds in the fire , but obstinately refusing to reveal the names of the respective wearers . Thus a whole month glided happily by , bring- ing with it few changes , excepting in the increas- ed weakness of ...
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... marriage settlements for him to look over , for the wedding is fixed for the 12th of June , and Sir Ernest has settled three thousand a year upon his future wife , so that she may never feel the evils 212 Spurs and Skirts .
... marriage settlements for him to look over , for the wedding is fixed for the 12th of June , and Sir Ernest has settled three thousand a year upon his future wife , so that she may never feel the evils 212 Spurs and Skirts .
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