The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman: Illustrated with Occasional Extracts from Her Diary, Том 1Hurst and Blackett, 1854 |
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... obtained permission to invite any ; and he was vain of the comfortably clear fifteen hundred a - year which his industry and prudence had enabled him to realize . The sensations pro- duced by all this were very pleasant , now that he ...
... obtained permission to invite any ; and he was vain of the comfortably clear fifteen hundred a - year which his industry and prudence had enabled him to realize . The sensations pro- duced by all this were very pleasant , now that he ...
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... obtaining this reputation for her ; but her keen look - out upon the world , probably , did more still . But we must not thus forestall the result of her education , in describing its progress . When Mrs. Buckhurst had quietly estab ...
... obtaining this reputation for her ; but her keen look - out upon the world , probably , did more still . But we must not thus forestall the result of her education , in describing its progress . When Mrs. Buckhurst had quietly estab ...
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... obtaining the object aimed at . In the present case Miss Smith very speedily closed the pianoforte , after inducing Mr. Morris to listen to her plain - spoken assurances -that it was impossible , from the formation of her hearing organs ...
... obtaining the object aimed at . In the present case Miss Smith very speedily closed the pianoforte , after inducing Mr. Morris to listen to her plain - spoken assurances -that it was impossible , from the formation of her hearing organs ...
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... obtain the greatly coveted car- riage too . She remembered with a dismal groan , poor woman ! how very easy a process her departed husband had found it to spend , and spend till his last shilling was gone ; and her concluding prayer ...
... obtain the greatly coveted car- riage too . She remembered with a dismal groan , poor woman ! how very easy a process her departed husband had found it to spend , and spend till his last shilling was gone ; and her concluding prayer ...
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... idea , for instance , how perfectly well she was aware , that unless she obtained some fashionable female acquaintance , she never could become fashionable herself . ( c Novel - reading , if it teaches nothing 6 LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF.
... idea , for instance , how perfectly well she was aware , that unless she obtained some fashionable female acquaintance , she never could become fashionable herself . ( c Novel - reading , if it teaches nothing 6 LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF.
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acquaintance admiration agreeable amusement aunt Buckhurst ball Baroness d'Oberkirch beautiful believe BLACKETT'S NEW PUBLICATIONS carriage certainly Char Charlotte Morris CIRCASSIA clever CONNAUGHT RANGERS dancing daugh daughter dear Charlotte decidedly delightful dinner dinner-party doubt drawing-room dress EDMUND SPENCER exactly eyes fashion father feel felt Folkstone gentleman give Gloucester Place handsome heart Herbert heroine hope HURST AND BLACKETT'S important interest intimacy invitation kind Knighton family laughing look LORD GEORGE BENTINCK lotte Louisa Knighton mamma manner Margaret Margaret Maitland Marie de Medicis means meditation mind Miss Charlotte Miss Morris Miss Smith Misses Knighton morning mother narrative neighbours never object papa partner party perfectly perhaps person pleasure present pretty reader replied Charlotte returned Richards SAM SLICK smile society SONG OF ROLAND sort sure tell thing thought vols volumes Wilcox Smith wish woman word young lady Zelah
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