Geraldine Fauconberg, Volume 2G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, 1808 - English fiction |
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... Neville's . She has already a fresh importation of visitors to supply the place of her cold and formal nieces . Sir Henry and Lady Tresilian are her present guests , with a young relation of theirs . We met them all whilst we were ...
... Neville's . She has already a fresh importation of visitors to supply the place of her cold and formal nieces . Sir Henry and Lady Tresilian are her present guests , with a young relation of theirs . We met them all whilst we were ...
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... Neville , a volume of Delille's poems in her hand , from which she was reading select passages to him aloud . At a neat , unlittered table , in the middle of the apartment , was posted Lady Tresilian , dressed with the nicest exactitude ...
... Neville , a volume of Delille's poems in her hand , from which she was reading select passages to him aloud . At a neat , unlittered table , in the middle of the apartment , was posted Lady Tresilian , dressed with the nicest exactitude ...
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... Neville received us with the most graceful cordiality ; presented us to her guests , and devoted herself to us , till the arrival of the Everleys . I then had leisure to contem- plate the ill - paired baronet and his wife ; for such I ...
... Neville received us with the most graceful cordiality ; presented us to her guests , and devoted herself to us , till the arrival of the Everleys . I then had leisure to contem- plate the ill - paired baronet and his wife ; for such I ...
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... , " you may chance to go to heaven : and then what will you do if you find its floor has not been , duly swept ? " dback " In such a case , " said Mrs. Neville , " her " 3 ladyship had better ask to come back again to IT.
... , " you may chance to go to heaven : and then what will you do if you find its floor has not been , duly swept ? " dback " In such a case , " said Mrs. Neville , " her " 3 ladyship had better ask to come back again to IT.
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... Neville . " For the benefit of our little Emma , " an- swered he ; " she was out of spirits , and com- fortless ; and they told me she wanted bracing and sea - air . The fact is , she pined for , what we all love , liberty and exercise ...
... Neville . " For the benefit of our little Emma , " an- swered he ; " she was out of spirits , and com- fortless ; and they told me she wanted bracing and sea - air . The fact is , she pined for , what we all love , liberty and exercise ...
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