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... and tile , hearth and tomb have all vanished from the quest of the traveller . What I have gathered from these researches will occupy my reader through the following pages . CHAPTER II . A train - band captain eke was ROB OF THE BOWL . 13.
... and tile , hearth and tomb have all vanished from the quest of the traveller . What I have gathered from these researches will occupy my reader through the following pages . CHAPTER II . A train - band captain eke was ROB OF THE BOWL . 13.
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... Captain Jasper Dauntrees , to whom I propose to introduce my reader with something more than the slight commendation of a casual acquaintance . This worthy had been bred up to the science of arms from early youth , and had seen many ...
... Captain Jasper Dauntrees , to whom I propose to introduce my reader with something more than the slight commendation of a casual acquaintance . This worthy had been bred up to the science of arms from early youth , and had seen many ...
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... captain of musketeers , with a snug shelter in the fort , a reason- ably fair and punctually disbursed allowance of pay - much better , than had been his lot under former masters , —and a frank wel- come at all times into the mansion of ...
... captain of musketeers , with a snug shelter in the fort , a reason- ably fair and punctually disbursed allowance of pay - much better , than had been his lot under former masters , —and a frank wel- come at all times into the mansion of ...
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... Captain Dauntrees had some excuse for a small share of vanity on the score of having worn well up to a green old age ; and it was manifest that he sought to improve this impression by the debonair freedom with which he wore a drab ...
... Captain Dauntrees had some excuse for a small share of vanity on the score of having worn well up to a green old age ; and it was manifest that he sought to improve this impression by the debonair freedom with which he wore a drab ...
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... " Of all the months of the Some such rhapsody as this was running through the thoughts , and breaking forth in slight mutterings from the lips of the Captain of Musketeers , on an afternoon in this much CHAPTER III. ...
... " Of all the months of the Some such rhapsody as this was running through the thoughts , and breaking forth in slight mutterings from the lips of the Captain of Musketeers , on an afternoon in this much CHAPTER III. ...
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