Temple Bar, Volume 39George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates Ward and Lock, 1873 |
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... gone for a stroll , sir , and on your return , having got to bed , dreamt you saw this thing ? " " Mrs. Williams , you are a sensible woman - do not vex me . I tell you I saw this person , or ghost or angel , or what the deuce else it ...
... gone for a stroll , sir , and on your return , having got to bed , dreamt you saw this thing ? " " Mrs. Williams , you are a sensible woman - do not vex me . I tell you I saw this person , or ghost or angel , or what the deuce else it ...
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... gone . Some time elapsed before Mrs. Williams returned . At length her footsteps sounded in the hall . She knocked and entered . " Have you seen the servant ? " I asked eagerly . " Yes , sir . " " Did she describe Mrs. Fraser ...
... gone . Some time elapsed before Mrs. Williams returned . At length her footsteps sounded in the hall . She knocked and entered . " Have you seen the servant ? " I asked eagerly . " Yes , sir . " " Did she describe Mrs. Fraser ...
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... gone , for dinner would be waiting ; and rising , I leisurely sauntered homewards . On entering the hall , I met Mrs. Williams . " There is a gentleman in the drawing - room , sir , " she remarked , " who came about an hour ago . " my ...
... gone , for dinner would be waiting ; and rising , I leisurely sauntered homewards . On entering the hall , I met Mrs. Williams . " There is a gentleman in the drawing - room , sir , " she remarked , " who came about an hour ago . " my ...
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... gone mad . Her steady supernatural gaze , her rigid mien , her shape , which united the two extremes of spectral beauty and human sweetness , were shocking . " " Would you fear to meet her if you had a companion . " " I hardly know ...
... gone mad . Her steady supernatural gaze , her rigid mien , her shape , which united the two extremes of spectral beauty and human sweetness , were shocking . " " Would you fear to meet her if you had a companion . " " I hardly know ...
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... gone back to England , but he will be back at Christmas , and they are to be married in January . After lunch I ask one of them to accompany me to the hospital to visit an old gentleman there , a great friend of the Carnegies . The ...
... gone back to England , but he will be back at Christmas , and they are to be married in January . After lunch I ask one of them to accompany me to the hospital to visit an old gentleman there , a great friend of the Carnegies . The ...
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