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... once done when a boy . So vividly the memory came to me — the high airy world as it was at that moment , and the boy I was walking free in the furrows - that the weak tears filled my eyes , the first I had shed in many years . Then I ...
... once done when a boy . So vividly the memory came to me — the high airy world as it was at that moment , and the boy I was walking free in the furrows - that the weak tears filled my eyes , the first I had shed in many years . Then I ...
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... once or twice , wearing the air of formality which so ill becomes him . I saw nothing in him : it was my fault , not his , that I missed so many weeks of his friendship . Once in that time the Professor crossed my fields with his tin ...
... once or twice , wearing the air of formality which so ill becomes him . I saw nothing in him : it was my fault , not his , that I missed so many weeks of his friendship . Once in that time the Professor crossed my fields with his tin ...
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... once looked up together at the sky . The chief objection to a joke in the country is that it is so imperishable . There is so much room for jokes and so few jokes to fill it . When I see Horace approaching with a peculiar , friendly ...
... once looked up together at the sky . The chief objection to a joke in the country is that it is so imperishable . There is so much room for jokes and so few jokes to fill it . When I see Horace approaching with a peculiar , friendly ...
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... once to the house ; I did not wish , then , to talk with Harriet . The things I had with myself were too important . I skulked toward my barn , compelling myself to walk slowly until I reached the corner , where I broke into an eager ...
... once to the house ; I did not wish , then , to talk with Harriet . The things I had with myself were too important . I skulked toward my barn , compelling myself to walk slowly until I reached the corner , where I broke into an eager ...
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... once , at least . So I started at the fence corner back of the barn and walked straight up through the pasture , keeping close to my boundaries , that I might not miss a single rod of my acres . And oh , it was a prime afternoon ! The ...
... once , at least . So I started at the fence corner back of the barn and walked straight up through the pasture , keeping close to my boundaries , that I might not miss a single rod of my acres . And oh , it was a prime afternoon ! The ...
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