The Sealskin CloakMacmillan, 1896 - 505 sider |
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... beauty and flattery , ignorant of self - restraint as an Italian peasant or a Russian duchess , she had tempted him to the irrevocable step . How dearly did he pur- chase the gratification of his fancy ! She laid waste every green thing ...
... beauty and flattery , ignorant of self - restraint as an Italian peasant or a Russian duchess , she had tempted him to the irrevocable step . How dearly did he pur- chase the gratification of his fancy ! She laid waste every green thing ...
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... beauty had departed . The line of feature was not dissimilar , and through the whole personnel ran the strange suggestion of a likeness to Marguerite Gordon , sufficiently distinct to be visible to the duplicate herself . " I wonder ...
... beauty had departed . The line of feature was not dissimilar , and through the whole personnel ran the strange suggestion of a likeness to Marguerite Gordon , sufficiently distinct to be visible to the duplicate herself . " I wonder ...
Side 11
... beauty , and thirsting for flattery , was changed by his arts and her own folly into a guilty wretch , whose doom was swiftly to befall . Now , can you hold your hand in mine ? " " God's mercy is infinite , " said the sweet , full tones ...
... beauty , and thirsting for flattery , was changed by his arts and her own folly into a guilty wretch , whose doom was swiftly to befall . Now , can you hold your hand in mine ? " " God's mercy is infinite , " said the sweet , full tones ...
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... beauty , her loving nature , her true heart , had originally enthralled him . The deeper and fuller knowledge he had been privileged to gain of these attributes had but produced in him a more unbounded , reverent admiration - a more ...
... beauty , her loving nature , her true heart , had originally enthralled him . The deeper and fuller knowledge he had been privileged to gain of these attributes had but produced in him a more unbounded , reverent admiration - a more ...
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... beauty and ver- dure were wont to smile . The sad hours , the melancholy days wore on . Time brought no solace to the grief of the desolate man , to his sorrow . At times extreme debility appeared likely to make an end of the disaster ...
... beauty and ver- dure were wont to smile . The sad hours , the melancholy days wore on . Time brought no solace to the grief of the desolate man , to his sorrow . At times extreme debility appeared likely to make an end of the disaster ...
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