Littell's Living Age, Volume 164Living Age Company Incorporated, 1885 |
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Page 38
... doubt and pain she had felt that after- noon , but she kept silence because she thought it would hurt them even to hear of it . And then she went away and wept a little , because she had never seen her Robert's wife , and because she ...
... doubt and pain she had felt that after- noon , but she kept silence because she thought it would hurt them even to hear of it . And then she went away and wept a little , because she had never seen her Robert's wife , and because she ...
Page 41
... doubt but that Lady Bristol will tell you of it , for she is brimful of that ( and cases of quadrille ) . ‡ Lady Bristol , who had an imperious and uncertain temper , and piqued herself on her power of saying sharp things , was no doubt ...
... doubt but that Lady Bristol will tell you of it , for she is brimful of that ( and cases of quadrille ) . ‡ Lady Bristol , who had an imperious and uncertain temper , and piqued herself on her power of saying sharp things , was no doubt ...
Page 46
... doubt she was a faithful ally ; she says she never lost a friend but by death and that those who remain shall never lose her while she lives , if they care to keep her . Fontenelle is one of her Parisian compan- ions : He has no mark of ...
... doubt she was a faithful ally ; she says she never lost a friend but by death and that those who remain shall never lose her while she lives , if they care to keep her . Fontenelle is one of her Parisian compan- ions : He has no mark of ...
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... doubt if she had lived a little longer things would have been different . When she died , at the age of forty - one , her books had already brought her some fame , and friends would have followed . As it was , her circle of interests ...
... doubt if she had lived a little longer things would have been different . When she died , at the age of forty - one , her books had already brought her some fame , and friends would have followed . As it was , her circle of interests ...
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... doubt that Dickens showed himself as bad an adviser as Delane , prac- tised man of the world though he was , did upon another occasion when Dickens invoked his services as a counsellor . 66 It would be exceedingly presumptuous on the ...
... doubt that Dickens showed himself as bad an adviser as Delane , prac- tised man of the world though he was , did upon another occasion when Dickens invoked his services as a counsellor . 66 It would be exceedingly presumptuous on the ...
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