The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse, Viz Our Village, Belford Regis, Country Stories, Finden's Tableaux, Foscari, Julian, Rienzi, Charles the FirstCrissy & Markley, 1850 - 672 pages |
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... body a more profitable vocation than adorning lame , and one a dwarf , so that his shop looks the mind . " Oh no ! Hannah loves her husband too well. fly . Will you walk with me through our village , courteous reader ? The journey is not ...
... body a more profitable vocation than adorning lame , and one a dwarf , so that his shop looks the mind . " Oh no ! Hannah loves her husband too well. fly . Will you walk with me through our village , courteous reader ? The journey is not ...
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... body in the place , her schoolmistress in- cluded ; turns the wheeler's children out of their own little cart , and makes them draw her ; seduces cakes and lollypops from the very shop - window ; makes the lazy carry her , the silent ...
... body in the place , her schoolmistress in- cluded ; turns the wheeler's children out of their own little cart , and makes them draw her ; seduces cakes and lollypops from the very shop - window ; makes the lazy carry her , the silent ...
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... body — a bell - ringer , a ballad - singer - a troller of profane catches- -a fiddler - a bruiser - a loller on alehouse benches - a teller of good stories - a mimic - a poet ! -What is all this to compare with the solid parts of John ...
... body — a bell - ringer , a ballad - singer - a troller of profane catches- -a fiddler - a bruiser - a loller on alehouse benches - a teller of good stories - a mimic - a poet ! -What is all this to compare with the solid parts of John ...
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... body liked her William - and she had promised - she was going - was it wrong ? " - " Oh no ! - and where are you to live ? " - " William has got a room in B. He works for Mr. Smith , the rich hatter in the market - place , and Mr. Smith ...
... body liked her William - and she had promised - she was going - was it wrong ? " - " Oh no ! - and where are you to live ? " - " William has got a room in B. He works for Mr. Smith , the rich hatter in the market - place , and Mr. Smith ...
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... body , quite so to a minister , or a constituent , or a constituent's wife or daughter . So he passed bowing and smiling through the world , the most disinterested of courtiers , the most subservient of upright men , with little other ...
... body , quite so to a minister , or a constituent , or a constituent's wife or daughter . So he passed bowing and smiling through the world , the most disinterested of courtiers , the most subservient of upright men , with little other ...
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