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... glory of my brother Otho . Yes - I can see her now , as she stood , clasping him tightly to her heart ; while he , never very observant or sensitive , kept gabbling on some long story about " 12 THE DENNES OF DAUNDELYONN .
... glory of my brother Otho . Yes - I can see her now , as she stood , clasping him tightly to her heart ; while he , never very observant or sensitive , kept gabbling on some long story about " 12 THE DENNES OF DAUNDELYONN .
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Mrs. Charles J. Proby. sensitive , kept gabbling on some long story about " tumblers " and " carriers : " for he kept pigeons ( or I might have said fleas , so greatly did the number of the latter predominate over the former ) . I ...
Mrs. Charles J. Proby. sensitive , kept gabbling on some long story about " tumblers " and " carriers : " for he kept pigeons ( or I might have said fleas , so greatly did the number of the latter predominate over the former ) . I ...
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... caps , for mamma to come and hear us say our prayers and bid us good - night — and perhaps , if we were very good , put us to sleep , according to her custom , with a song or a wonderful story - when we heard AZRAEL . 15.
... caps , for mamma to come and hear us say our prayers and bid us good - night — and perhaps , if we were very good , put us to sleep , according to her custom , with a song or a wonderful story - when we heard AZRAEL . 15.
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Mrs. Charles J. Proby. a song or a wonderful story - when we heard from the room below us a sound so unearthly , that our first impression was that no human being could have uttered it . It was neither a groan of physical agony , nor a ...
Mrs. Charles J. Proby. a song or a wonderful story - when we heard from the room below us a sound so unearthly , that our first impression was that no human being could have uttered it . It was neither a groan of physical agony , nor a ...
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... story of the three wise children , " Ananias , Azarias , and Misael , more familiarly known as Shadrach , Meshach , and Abednego , being depicted there- upon in the act of being cast into the burning fiery furnace . This piece of ...
... story of the three wise children , " Ananias , Azarias , and Misael , more familiarly known as Shadrach , Meshach , and Abednego , being depicted there- upon in the act of being cast into the burning fiery furnace . This piece of ...
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Page 9 - They say it was a shocking sight after the field was won; for many thousand bodies here lay rotting in the sun; but things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory. Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, and our good Prince Eugene. "Why, 'twas a very wicked thing!" said little Wilhelmine. "Nay... nay... my little girl," quoth he, "it was a famous victory.