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, 1846 - 672 pages |
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... woman .... 512 The Town ...... 307 The Ground - ash ... 516 Stephen Lanc , the Butcher . 309 Mr. Joseph Hanson , the Haberdasher .... 521 William and Hannah ..... 315 The Beauty of the Village ... 526 The Curate of St. Nicholas .. 319 ...
... woman .... 512 The Town ...... 307 The Ground - ash ... 516 Stephen Lanc , the Butcher . 309 Mr. Joseph Hanson , the Haberdasher .... 521 William and Hannah ..... 315 The Beauty of the Village ... 526 The Curate of St. Nicholas .. 319 ...
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... woman of Han- nah . Her mind was very like her person ; modest , graceful , gentle , affectionate , grateful , and generous above all . The generosity of the poor is always a very real and fine thing ; they give what they want ; and ...
... woman of Han- nah . Her mind was very like her person ; modest , graceful , gentle , affectionate , grateful , and generous above all . The generosity of the poor is always a very real and fine thing ; they give what they want ; and ...
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... woman of great information , an excellent authority , an undoubted reference in all matters of gossipry . Now I lag miserably behind the time ; I never hear of a death till after the funeral , nor of a wedding till I read it in the ...
... woman of great information , an excellent authority , an undoubted reference in all matters of gossipry . Now I lag miserably behind the time ; I never hear of a death till after the funeral , nor of a wedding till I read it in the ...
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... woman , the dog and the cat ; they were in form , height , and size , alike to a thread ; the man grey , the woman pink , his attendant white , and her's black . Next to these figures , on either side , rose two fir - trees from two red ...
... woman , the dog and the cat ; they were in form , height , and size , alike to a thread ; the man grey , the woman pink , his attendant white , and her's black . Next to these figures , on either side , rose two fir - trees from two red ...
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... Woman , who turns out , as might be expected , to be no woman at all - nothing , as Master Slender said , but " a great lubberly boy ; " thereby , as I apprehend , discourteously pre- suming that a silent woman is a non - entity . If ...
... Woman , who turns out , as might be expected , to be no woman at all - nothing , as Master Slender said , but " a great lubberly boy ; " thereby , as I apprehend , discourteously pre- suming that a silent woman is a non - entity . If ...
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