The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 3G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... heart of the man did not decline with years , but rode it out with him through life to death . He had always intended to have a son and build up a family . It was the sole failure of his career that he had only a daughter . That had ...
... heart of the man did not decline with years , but rode it out with him through life to death . He had always intended to have a son and build up a family . It was the sole failure of his career that he had only a daughter . That had ...
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... heart seemed to break . She bent her head and said nothing . He went on to hint that she should go to her father , who seeing her need would surely forgive her . Then her proud spirit could brook no more . " Rather than darken my ...
... heart seemed to break . She bent her head and said nothing . He went on to hint that she should go to her father , who seeing her need would surely forgive her . Then her proud spirit could brook no more . " Rather than darken my ...
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... heart sank , for she saw that the great body of her husband must cover a pygmy soul . Bound she was for all her weary days to the place of her disgrace , doomed she was to live to the last with the woman who hated her , and to eat that ...
... heart sank , for she saw that the great body of her husband must cover a pygmy soul . Bound she was for all her weary days to the place of her disgrace , doomed she was to live to the last with the woman who hated her , and to eat that ...
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... heart misgave her , and she paused on the outskirts of the crowd . To go in among these girls and sell her hair to the Jew , was to make herself one with the lowest and meanest of the town , but that was not the fear that held her back ...
... heart misgave her , and she paused on the outskirts of the crowd . To go in among these girls and sell her hair to the Jew , was to make herself one with the lowest and meanest of the town , but that was not the fear that held her back ...
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... heart , but the hours went by and still Stephen did not appear . The old woman dozed before the fire and snored . At length , when the night had worn on towards midnight , an unsteady step came to the door , and Stephen reeled into the ...
... heart , but the hours went by and still Stephen did not appear . The old woman dozed before the fire and snored . At length , when the night had worn on towards midnight , an unsteady step came to the door , and Stephen reeled into the ...
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