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... mother came to a dead stop sometimes , opposite a small account , and pondered with painful calculations over the means of paying it ; but it always was paid- and we boys had the most perfect trust in the immense capabilities of the ...
... mother came to a dead stop sometimes , opposite a small account , and pondered with painful calculations over the means of paying it ; but it always was paid- and we boys had the most perfect trust in the immense capabilities of the ...
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... mother's fireside , where the firelight was the only midnight oil , learned his Latin lesson as well as we did , if it did him quite as little service . We stripped the bark off the trees to twist strings for our " dragons , " till the ...
... mother's fireside , where the firelight was the only midnight oil , learned his Latin lesson as well as we did , if it did him quite as little service . We stripped the bark off the trees to twist strings for our " dragons , " till the ...
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... mother , whose memory seemed to carry every measure of the natural country music , and whose voice used to pass on , with scarcely a pause , from song to song , to little Mary's delight and ours - my mother never sang again . But we ...
... mother , whose memory seemed to carry every measure of the natural country music , and whose voice used to pass on , with scarcely a pause , from song to song , to little Mary's delight and ours - my mother never sang again . But we ...
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... mother's bargain with Mrs. Cockburn for my board could not be concluded at a less rate than fifteen weekly shillings , so that the glorious privilege remained still for me a thing in the future . And Mrs. Cockburn had a Jessie , a ...
... mother's bargain with Mrs. Cockburn for my board could not be concluded at a less rate than fifteen weekly shillings , so that the glorious privilege remained still for me a thing in the future . And Mrs. Cockburn had a Jessie , a ...
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... mother , which deprived her of her first crop of wiry hair . And over the rough woollen tartan frock , with its waist encroach- ing on her very arms , Geordie is still sen- tenced to wear a long cotton pinafore , instead of the smart ...
... mother , which deprived her of her first crop of wiry hair . And over the rough woollen tartan frock , with its waist encroach- ing on her very arms , Geordie is still sen- tenced to wear a long cotton pinafore , instead of the smart ...
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