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... short time , however , our melancholy wore away , and we recovered , by degrees , our spirits and our appetites ; the former rising to their usual height , and the latter requiring the aid of some substantial beefsteaks , to prevent our ...
... short time , however , our melancholy wore away , and we recovered , by degrees , our spirits and our appetites ; the former rising to their usual height , and the latter requiring the aid of some substantial beefsteaks , to prevent our ...
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... short time , however , our melancholy wore away , and we recovered , by degrees , our spirits and our appetites ; the former rising to their usual height , and the latter requiring the aid of some substantial becisteaks , to prevent our ...
... short time , however , our melancholy wore away , and we recovered , by degrees , our spirits and our appetites ; the former rising to their usual height , and the latter requiring the aid of some substantial becisteaks , to prevent our ...
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... short time , however , our melancholy wore away , and we recovered , by degrees , our spirits and our appetites ; the former rising to their usual height , and the latter requiring the aid of some substantial beefsteaks , to prevent our ...
... short time , however , our melancholy wore away , and we recovered , by degrees , our spirits and our appetites ; the former rising to their usual height , and the latter requiring the aid of some substantial beefsteaks , to prevent our ...
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... short , we all eat , drank , talked , and slept as well as Christians with good consciences usually do . My slumbers were peaceful , and my dreams sweet ; the former composed my mind , and the latter conti- nually presented before it ...
... short , we all eat , drank , talked , and slept as well as Christians with good consciences usually do . My slumbers were peaceful , and my dreams sweet ; the former composed my mind , and the latter conti- nually presented before it ...
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... short time I have been amongst them , they are , indeed , right good fellows . " " You have not , I think , been yet out of town ; when you go into the country , and visit their estates , I doubt not but that your opinion , now hardly ...
... short time I have been amongst them , they are , indeed , right good fellows . " " You have not , I think , been yet out of town ; when you go into the country , and visit their estates , I doubt not but that your opinion , now hardly ...
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