Overland Monthly and Out West MagazineA. Roman and Company, 1887 |
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Page 8
... girl , indeed . I used to love to see her watching for the mail , with those long curls hanging over her face . That was some years ago , however . Old Preston is dead , since . And Ruth -- what has become of her ? " Did " She is there ...
... girl , indeed . I used to love to see her watching for the mail , with those long curls hanging over her face . That was some years ago , however . Old Preston is dead , since . And Ruth -- what has become of her ? " Did " She is there ...
Page 11
... girl of eighteen -- not large , but having a pretty air of dignity and self possession that was not at all unbefitting her slight , almost fragile , build , but rather seem- ed to supplement it with a peculiar grace which otherwise it ...
... girl of eighteen -- not large , but having a pretty air of dignity and self possession that was not at all unbefitting her slight , almost fragile , build , but rather seem- ed to supplement it with a peculiar grace which otherwise it ...
Page 12
... girl . Represent- ing these things so pathetically and earn- estly to him , indeed , that at times his reso- lution seemed about to give way , and he would surely have left her behind had it not been for her own invincible fortitude ...
... girl . Represent- ing these things so pathetically and earn- estly to him , indeed , that at times his reso- lution seemed about to give way , and he would surely have left her behind had it not been for her own invincible fortitude ...
Page 51
... girl scarce older than herself , but who as the daughter of the silversmith held some pre- tensions to superior gentility among the village folk . She wondered that she was not in the choza with Florencia and the children , and raised ...
... girl scarce older than herself , but who as the daughter of the silversmith held some pre- tensions to superior gentility among the village folk . She wondered that she was not in the choza with Florencia and the children , and raised ...
Page 52
... girl ? What could a reasonable father and mother do for a girl when a man asks her in marriage ? It is plain she must have played some tricks of our Señora Madre Eva to have beguiled him . Ay , but I re- member my mother flailed me ...
... girl ? What could a reasonable father and mother do for a girl when a man asks her in marriage ? It is plain she must have played some tricks of our Señora Madre Eva to have beguiled him . Ay , but I re- member my mother flailed me ...
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