Geraldine Fauconberg, Volume 2G. Wilkie and J. Robinson, 1808 - English fiction |
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... good friends when the ice is once broken . I hope , " added she , half smiling , " that is beginning to be the case with us , Mr. Lesmore . " " There is so much delicacy and gentleness 1 in your reproof , if indeed you are capable of 2.
... good friends when the ice is once broken . I hope , " added she , half smiling , " that is beginning to be the case with us , Mr. Lesmore . " " There is so much delicacy and gentleness 1 in your reproof , if indeed you are capable of 2.
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... hope I did not require , I should be hardy indeed if I hesitated for a moment to play . " " If you had required it , " said Mrs. Ever- ley , " you would have been less willing to pro- fit by it ; and I flatter myself we should have had ...
... hope I did not require , I should be hardy indeed if I hesitated for a moment to play . " " If you had required it , " said Mrs. Ever- ley , " you would have been less willing to pro- fit by it ; and I flatter myself we should have had ...
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... hope you are only amusing yourself at my cost ; I hope I have no enemy malicious enough to insinuate such poisonous falsehoods in your ear ! " He spoke with an agitation and a vehe- mence which seemed to stagger his fair ac- cuser . She ...
... hope you are only amusing yourself at my cost ; I hope I have no enemy malicious enough to insinuate such poisonous falsehoods in your ear ! " He spoke with an agitation and a vehe- mence which seemed to stagger his fair ac- cuser . She ...
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... hope the little that remains may become more obtuse every day ; since she certainly has now a worse chance than ever of meeting with kindness . " 66 Why now ? Will Mrs. Neville counte- nance his sarcastic behaviour to her ? " " No ...
... hope the little that remains may become more obtuse every day ; since she certainly has now a worse chance than ever of meeting with kindness . " 66 Why now ? Will Mrs. Neville counte- nance his sarcastic behaviour to her ? " " No ...
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... hope the weather will be calmer when you I suppose you are very gay at Dub- return . lin : we are dull enough here , " & c . Now , having lost all relish for the juvenile simplicity of this style , yet not acquired any other one jot ...
... hope the weather will be calmer when you I suppose you are very gay at Dub- return . lin : we are dull enough here , " & c . Now , having lost all relish for the juvenile simplicity of this style , yet not acquired any other one jot ...
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