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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Page 12
... give what they want ; and Hannah was of all poor people the most generous . She loved to give ; it was her pleasure , her luxury . Rosy - cheeked apples , plums with the bloom on them , nosegays of cloves and blossomed myrtle these were ...
... give what they want ; and Hannah was of all poor people the most generous . She loved to give ; it was her pleasure , her luxury . Rosy - cheeked apples , plums with the bloom on them , nosegays of cloves and blossomed myrtle these were ...
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... give himself away . But that he could not help . It was almost impossible for him to say No to any body , quite so to a minister , or a constituent , or a constituent's wife or daughter . So he passed bowing and smiling through the ...
... give himself away . But that he could not help . It was almost impossible for him to say No to any body , quite so to a minister , or a constituent , or a constituent's wife or daughter . So he passed bowing and smiling through the ...
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... give signal of a washerwoman . There dwells , at present in a state of single blessedness , Betty Adams , the wife of our sometimes gardener . I never saw any one who so much reininded me in person of that lady whom every body knows ...
... give signal of a washerwoman . There dwells , at present in a state of single blessedness , Betty Adams , the wife of our sometimes gardener . I never saw any one who so much reininded me in person of that lady whom every body knows ...
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... give no token of remark- able activity ; but he is very active , and so steady a player ! so safe ! We had half gained the match when we had secured him . He is a man of substance , too , in every way ; owns one cow , two donkeys , six ...
... give no token of remark- able activity ; but he is very active , and so steady a player ! so safe ! We had half gained the match when we had secured him . He is a man of substance , too , in every way ; owns one cow , two donkeys , six ...
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... to him , and stared at tuted for an interminable duration , a sort of him , was seized with such a fit of shame - immortality . An old pollard oak of my ac- quaintance used to give me this impression . | mon TOM CORDERY . 45 Tom Cordery.
... to him , and stared at tuted for an interminable duration , a sort of him , was seized with such a fit of shame - immortality . An old pollard oak of my ac- quaintance used to give me this impression . | mon TOM CORDERY . 45 Tom Cordery.
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