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... a stranger , with a bronzed , weather - beaten face like a sailor's , leaned over the garden rail , and said to him : “ What a fine young date - palm you have there , sir ! " " Mon Dieu ! ” cried Père Antoine , starting 54 ALDRICH.
... a stranger , with a bronzed , weather - beaten face like a sailor's , leaned over the garden rail , and said to him : “ What a fine young date - palm you have there , sir ! " " Mon Dieu ! ” cried Père Antoine , starting 54 ALDRICH.
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cried Père Antoine , starting , " and is it a palm ? ” “ Yes , indeed , " returned the man . “ I didn't reckon the tree would flourish like that in this latitude . " " Ah , mon Dieu ! " was all the priest could say aloud ; but he ...
cried Père Antoine , starting , " and is it a palm ? ” “ Yes , indeed , " returned the man . “ I didn't reckon the tree would flourish like that in this latitude . " " Ah , mon Dieu ! " was all the priest could say aloud ; but he ...
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cried one agape , Shuddering in the gloaming light . “ I know not , ” said the second Shape , “ I only died last night ! ” ELMWOOD IN MEMORY OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL > HERE , in the twilight , at the well - known gate I linger , with no ...
cried one agape , Shuddering in the gloaming light . “ I know not , ” said the second Shape , “ I only died last night ! ” ELMWOOD IN MEMORY OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL > HERE , in the twilight , at the well - known gate I linger , with no ...
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“ Room for the living , " she cries to us ; " do not come to darken my blue sky with your miseries ; each has his turn : begone ! ” But to strengthen our own courage , we must say to ourselves , No ; it is good for the world to see ...
“ Room for the living , " she cries to us ; " do not come to darken my blue sky with your miseries ; each has his turn : begone ! ” But to strengthen our own courage , we must say to ourselves , No ; it is good for the world to see ...
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... with helmet downwards and his bayonet between the pavingstones . The servant - maid and the little boy came down directly to look for him , but though they almost trod upon him , they could not see him . If the Soldier had cried out ...
... with helmet downwards and his bayonet between the pavingstones . The servant - maid and the little boy came down directly to look for him , but though they almost trod upon him , they could not see him . If the Soldier had cried out ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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