The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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Page 74
... wife for me , " thought he ; " but she is very grand . She lives in a castle , and I have only a box , and there are five and twenty of us in that . It is no place for her . But I must try to make acquaintance with her . " And then he ...
... wife for me , " thought he ; " but she is very grand . She lives in a castle , and I have only a box , and there are five and twenty of us in that . It is no place for her . But I must try to make acquaintance with her . " And then he ...
Page 85
... wife . Then it came to itself again . The children wanted to play with it ; but the Duckling thought they would do it an injury , and in its terror fluttered up into the milk pan , so that the milk spurted down into the room . The woman ...
... wife . Then it came to itself again . The children wanted to play with it ; but the Duckling thought they would do it an injury , and in its terror fluttered up into the milk pan , so that the milk spurted down into the room . The woman ...
Page 87
... wife was a little proud in those days . Only in the evening , when she went by , she deigned to glance at the Lamp ; in the daytime never . But now , in these latter years , when all three , the watchman , his wife , and the Lamp , had ...
... wife was a little proud in those days . Only in the evening , when she went by , she deigned to glance at the Lamp ; in the daytime never . But now , in these latter years , when all three , the watchman , his wife , and the Lamp , had ...
Page 102
... wife . For many days she lamented , but at last the fulfilment of the divine precept was urgent upon her , and the company was made ready to conduct the maiden to her deadly bridal . And now the nuptial torch gathers dark smoke and ...
... wife . For many days she lamented , but at last the fulfilment of the divine precept was urgent upon her , and the company was made ready to conduct the maiden to her deadly bridal . And now the nuptial torch gathers dark smoke and ...
Page 104
... wife ; and lo ! before the rise of dawn he had de- parted hastily . And the attendant voices ministered to the needs of the newly married . And so it happened with her for a long season . And as nature has willed , that new thing , by ...
... wife ; and lo ! before the rise of dawn he had de- parted hastily . And the attendant voices ministered to the needs of the newly married . And so it happened with her for a long season . And as nature has willed , that new thing , by ...
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