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... began to pay my own way , my days were ordered by an inscrutable power which drove me hourly to my task . I was rarely allowed to look up or down , but always forward , toward that vague Success which we Americans love to glorify . My ...
... began to pay my own way , my days were ordered by an inscrutable power which drove me hourly to my task . I was rarely allowed to look up or down , but always forward , toward that vague Success which we Americans love to glorify . My ...
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... no longer . So be it . " Thus I lay , and presently I began to hunger and thirst . Desire rose within me : the indescribable longing of the convalescent for the food of recovery . So I lay , 4 ADVENTURES OF DAVID GRAYSON.
... no longer . So be it . " Thus I lay , and presently I began to hunger and thirst . Desire rose within me : the indescribable longing of the convalescent for the food of recovery . So I lay , 4 ADVENTURES OF DAVID GRAYSON.
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... began to voice a large , comfortable , condescending tolerance . I could fairly feel Horace growing superior as he sat there beside me . Oh , he had everything in his favour . He could prove what he said : One tree + one thicket ...
... began to voice a large , comfortable , condescending tolerance . I could fairly feel Horace growing superior as he sat there beside me . Oh , he had everything in his favour . He could prove what he said : One tree + one thicket ...
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... began to have hopes of him . There is no joy comparable to the making of a friend , and the more resistant the material the greater the triumph . Baxter , the carpenter , says that when he works for enjoyment he chooses curly maple ...
... began to have hopes of him . There is no joy comparable to the making of a friend , and the more resistant the material the greater the triumph . Baxter , the carpenter , says that when he works for enjoyment he chooses curly maple ...
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... began to examine my fences - my fences- with a critical eye . I considered the quality of the soil , though in truth I was not much of a judge of such matters . I gloated over my plowed land , lying there open and passive in the sun ...
... began to examine my fences - my fences- with a critical eye . I considered the quality of the soil , though in truth I was not much of a judge of such matters . I gloated over my plowed land , lying there open and passive in the sun ...
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