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Page 267
Half an hour previously he had already lighted a match , tearing from the old - fashioned fire- place its gaudy ornaments of green and pink paper , and demanding of the miller's much astonished wife the wherewithal to make a fire .
Half an hour previously he had already lighted a match , tearing from the old - fashioned fire- place its gaudy ornaments of green and pink paper , and demanding of the miller's much astonished wife the wherewithal to make a fire .
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... with an hour and a half for meals ( i.e. , ten and a half hours of daily labor ) , with the excep- tion of Saturdays , on which no protected person should be allowed to work after 2 P. M. Thus the result was a Ten Hours and a Half ...
... with an hour and a half for meals ( i.e. , ten and a half hours of daily labor ) , with the excep- tion of Saturdays , on which no protected person should be allowed to work after 2 P. M. Thus the result was a Ten Hours and a Half ...
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sentinel ; the wet gravel sparkled in the | he said half regretfully . He went up to " Yes - no . The servants will be in bed . They won't hear you . " We went back into the garden . Margaret's window As at a given signal , the birds ...
sentinel ; the wet gravel sparkled in the | he said half regretfully . He went up to " Yes - no . The servants will be in bed . They won't hear you . " We went back into the garden . Margaret's window As at a given signal , the birds ...
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