Not Like Other Girls: A Novel, Том 2Richard Bentley and Son, 1884 |
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... moment . People were wondering even now who they were . They had dressed them- selves that morning , rehearsing their parts , as it were , with studied simplicity . The gown Nan wore was as inexpensive as a gown could be her hat was a ...
... moment . People were wondering even now who they were . They had dressed them- selves that morning , rehearsing their parts , as it were , with studied simplicity . The gown Nan wore was as inexpensive as a gown could be her hat was a ...
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... moment after- wards she drew down her veil and leaned back in her seat , and Phillis , somewhat abashed , endeavoured fruitlessly to gather up the threads of the sermon . There , it is over ! débût , ' she said , a little We have made ...
... moment after- wards she drew down her veil and leaned back in her seat , and Phillis , somewhat abashed , endeavoured fruitlessly to gather up the threads of the sermon . There , it is over ! débût , ' she said , a little We have made ...
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... moment she even announced that its draperies showed it to be a woman , before she opened her book and commenced reading . There is something very striking in a lonely central figure in a scene - the outline cuts so sharply against the ...
... moment she even announced that its draperies showed it to be a woman , before she opened her book and commenced reading . There is something very striking in a lonely central figure in a scene - the outline cuts so sharply against the ...
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... moment , as she passed , with a sort of well - bred surprise in her air , as though she marvelled to see them there ; her black dress touched Laddie , and he caught at it with an impotent bark . The sisters must have made a pretty ...
... moment , as she passed , with a sort of well - bred surprise in her air , as though she marvelled to see them there ; her black dress touched Laddie , and he caught at it with an impotent bark . The sisters must have made a pretty ...
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... moment , and her eyes rested searchingly on Phillis . That shabby little cottage ! ' was the thought that filled up the outline of her words ; but though she felt inward surprise , and a momentary disappoint- ment , there was no change ...
... moment , and her eyes rested searchingly on Phillis . That shabby little cottage ! ' was the thought that filled up the outline of her words ; but though she felt inward surprise , and a momentary disappoint- ment , there was no change ...
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afraid answer Archie's asked Phillis Atalanta Barby battledore and shuttlecock began Bonnie Dundee Braidwood Road butcher's wife Cheyne Cheyne's clergyman Colonel Cottage Dancy dark darlings Dick's door Dorothy dreadfully dress dressmakers Dulce Dulce's Ellis Burton exclaimed eyes face father feel fellow felt Friary girls glance Grace Hadleigh hand head heart Isabel kind knew Laddie laugh Magdalene mammie manner Mattie Mayne mean mind Miss Challoner Miss Drummond Miss Mewlstone Miss Middleton Miss Milner morning mother Nan's ness never nice observed Phillis Oh dear Oh yes once parlour Phillis's poor pretty replied Phillis returned Archie returned Dick returned Nan returned Phillis Richard Mayne seemed sigh sister smile sort Squails stood storm stranger sure sweet talk tell Thank thing thought tired to-night told tone took Trimmings turned uttered voice wait walk wanted White House woman wonder word young lady
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