The Dennes of Daundelyonn, Volume 1Smith, Elder, 1859 |
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Page 13
... she gasped out " Thank God ! Oh ! thank God ! his name's not there . " The day after this scene we left Wales for London : my mother , my sisters , Florence , and Angelica ( I never have been able to discover how AZRAEL . 13.
... she gasped out " Thank God ! Oh ! thank God ! his name's not there . " The day after this scene we left Wales for London : my mother , my sisters , Florence , and Angelica ( I never have been able to discover how AZRAEL . 13.
Page 14
... Florence was so fat , Angelica so thin , and myself so snubby and stumpy . We all had good reasons to remember our first night in London : not so much on account of any special interest in the " metropolis of the world , " for we were ...
... Florence was so fat , Angelica so thin , and myself so snubby and stumpy . We all had good reasons to remember our first night in London : not so much on account of any special interest in the " metropolis of the world , " for we were ...
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... Florence , with constitutional laziness , gave herself no further trouble about the matter , than to open her very large eyes wider than ever ; whilst I , creep- ing up the side of my little crib , and peeping at the contents of the ...
... Florence , with constitutional laziness , gave herself no further trouble about the matter , than to open her very large eyes wider than ever ; whilst I , creep- ing up the side of my little crib , and peeping at the contents of the ...
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... being , as I before stated , the youngest of the three girls ; but Florence was so careless she would have lost them to a certainty , and Angelica was so indifferent to everything not absolutely useful or BENONI . 25.
... being , as I before stated , the youngest of the three girls ; but Florence was so careless she would have lost them to a certainty , and Angelica was so indifferent to everything not absolutely useful or BENONI . 25.
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... Florence's first attempt at embroidery , in which her feelings seem to have got the better of her orthography , for it is inscribed with the word " Afection ; " and a note from Angelica , the first she ever wrote , I believe , during ...
... Florence's first attempt at embroidery , in which her feelings seem to have got the better of her orthography , for it is inscribed with the word " Afection ; " and a note from Angelica , the first she ever wrote , I believe , during ...
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