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of the Commissioner ' s red - coated “ You are very glib with your servants , who
led the way to a anticipations , ” said Yorke , who had clump of trees on the right
just risen from his chair and was pacing within the enclosure wall , which up and
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of the Commissioner ' s red - coated “ You are very glib with your servants , who
led the way to a anticipations , ” said Yorke , who had clump of trees on the right
just risen from his chair and was pacing within the enclosure wall , which up and
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... and find no change . There ' s the old pond , and on its turfy slope The old dial ,
and the sleepy old gold - fish Among the water - lilies . Hah ! what ' s that ? That
bald red line of brick that cuts the sky ? Is that dismantled block my garden wall ?
... and find no change . There ' s the old pond , and on its turfy slope The old dial ,
and the sleepy old gold - fish Among the water - lilies . Hah ! what ' s that ? That
bald red line of brick that cuts the sky ? Is that dismantled block my garden wall ?
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Or — there ' s a gardener ' s face that ' s new to me' Twas he , no doubt , not
Richard , that despoiled My walls of that luxuriant coronal I wreathed upon their
brows . I trimmed their locks l ' the garden - side , — but ' twas a sight to see How
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Or — there ' s a gardener ' s face that ' s new to me' Twas he , no doubt , not
Richard , that despoiled My walls of that luxuriant coronal I wreathed upon their
brows . I trimmed their locks l ' the garden - side , — but ' twas a sight to see How
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She had learned from exself had come riding into the win - perience that to bang
the wall with dow on a flash of lightning , she à poker or to shout through the
would have knocked him down keyhole gained nothing but a flood with the
shovel ...
She had learned from exself had come riding into the win - perience that to bang
the wall with dow on a flash of lightning , she à poker or to shout through the
would have knocked him down keyhole gained nothing but a flood with the
shovel ...
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So on one store of knowledge which he enside of an old wall Mr John Strong
joyed . She , too , should be wise and was held a colleague of the powers good ;
and so the quickening inof darkness , on the other was wor - fluence of Mr John ...
So on one store of knowledge which he enside of an old wall Mr John Strong
joyed . She , too , should be wise and was held a colleague of the powers good ;
and so the quickening inof darkness , on the other was wor - fluence of Mr John ...
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