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... mother's rent , and leave her a loaf of bread and one or two other necessaries when he goes away ; and Mrs. T. would say , " I likes to keep a roof for him , and to see his face when he comes to London , if I am half - starved , so that ...
... mother's rent , and leave her a loaf of bread and one or two other necessaries when he goes away ; and Mrs. T. would say , " I likes to keep a roof for him , and to see his face when he comes to London , if I am half - starved , so that ...
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... mother ; ' and I kept on saying that ere , it seemed so strong on me , and as I'm a living sinner , ” ( said Mrs. T. , formerly she never would own she was a sinner , ) " I looks up , and I'm blest but if there wasn't Jim a - coming up ...
... mother ; ' and I kept on saying that ere , it seemed so strong on me , and as I'm a living sinner , ” ( said Mrs. T. , formerly she never would own she was a sinner , ) " I looks up , and I'm blest but if there wasn't Jim a - coming up ...
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... mother's rent , and when he came to town , leave her perhaps the value of eighteenpence ; and a beggar woman who lives close by , have often found washing her out , as she expressed it , " a few bits of things because the poor old ...
... mother's rent , and when he came to town , leave her perhaps the value of eighteenpence ; and a beggar woman who lives close by , have often found washing her out , as she expressed it , " a few bits of things because the poor old ...
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... mother , as he termed it , respectable . " 66 Jim , the " Wild Indian , " is only an occasional attendant on public worship ; but I pray the careful burier of his mother may be himself buried with Christ in that baptism , from which he ...
... mother , as he termed it , respectable . " 66 Jim , the " Wild Indian , " is only an occasional attendant on public worship ; but I pray the careful burier of his mother may be himself buried with Christ in that baptism , from which he ...
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... represented to me as being in an almost starving condition , which was the case , I found both her mother and herself had been , and were , living unlawfully with one man , by whom they had both had several 42 A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF.
... represented to me as being in an almost starving condition , which was the case , I found both her mother and herself had been , and were , living unlawfully with one man , by whom they had both had several 42 A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF.
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