New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 163Henry Colburn, 1878 |
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... poor demented wench ; it's more than I can bear , sometimes , and it's just wearing me to skin and bone . - Well , what's to do , Judith ? " she added , as that withered , cross - grained old dame entered the room , and stood twitching ...
... poor demented wench ; it's more than I can bear , sometimes , and it's just wearing me to skin and bone . - Well , what's to do , Judith ? " she added , as that withered , cross - grained old dame entered the room , and stood twitching ...
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... poor lassie in a mad - house , I dinna think that . Howsomever , I've said my say , an ' I've nowt mair to do wi't ; I'se wash my hands o't aw . " And so the old woman did ; and when afterwards her mistress tried to wash her hands also ...
... poor lassie in a mad - house , I dinna think that . Howsomever , I've said my say , an ' I've nowt mair to do wi't ; I'se wash my hands o't aw . " And so the old woman did ; and when afterwards her mistress tried to wash her hands also ...
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... Poor Mary , with fatal cunning , had feigned sleep when Judith came to bed , and so soon as the old woman lay snoring by her side , which was the case in a few minutes , she got up , and stole away to hearken whether her stepmother and ...
... Poor Mary , with fatal cunning , had feigned sleep when Judith came to bed , and so soon as the old woman lay snoring by her side , which was the case in a few minutes , she got up , and stole away to hearken whether her stepmother and ...
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... poor girl turned upon the old woman was so wan and ghastly , so pitiful in its expression of deep and mortal anguish , that tears fell from the eyes of the usually stolid and peevish old servant . " Nay , deary , " she said , with ...
... poor girl turned upon the old woman was so wan and ghastly , so pitiful in its expression of deep and mortal anguish , that tears fell from the eyes of the usually stolid and peevish old servant . " Nay , deary , " she said , with ...
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... poor distraught mind was bent on ; and hence Judith's warning to Mrs. Gurnett . Constant brooding over depressing ideas had given them such a hold upon her mind as to completely disturb its balance . Then , as Mr. Cheney had truly said ...
... poor distraught mind was bent on ; and hence Judith's warning to Mrs. Gurnett . Constant brooding over depressing ideas had given them such a hold upon her mind as to completely disturb its balance . Then , as Mr. Cheney had truly said ...
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