Overland Monthly and Out West MagazineA. Roman and Company, 1887 |
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... father ) owed the chance which had made him a soldier of for- tune instead of a laborer in the village where his brothers and sisters plodded and toiled , in absolute ignorance of the father who had forsaken them . His knowledge of this ...
... father ) owed the chance which had made him a soldier of for- tune instead of a laborer in the village where his brothers and sisters plodded and toiled , in absolute ignorance of the father who had forsaken them . His knowledge of this ...
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... father must be given . her - so well did she know the customs and manners of her country people , ever prone to useless prevarication , even in their deepest sorrow - hastened to describe to her the few scant means they found in his ...
... father must be given . her - so well did she know the customs and manners of her country people , ever prone to useless prevarication , even in their deepest sorrow - hastened to describe to her the few scant means they found in his ...
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... father's murderer , her mother's destroy- er , should wield this devil's witchcraft over her ? My God , who will defend her ? Who will rescue her ? " " Chinita raised her head , her nostrils quiv- ering , the veins upon her neck and ...
... father's murderer , her mother's destroy- er , should wield this devil's witchcraft over her ? My God , who will defend her ? Who will rescue her ? " " Chinita raised her head , her nostrils quiv- ering , the veins upon her neck and ...
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... father - had asked no question as to what hands were set to tend him , nor in what direction lay the cave in which he was sheltered . Such queries would have been useless - she could do nothing ; yet it would have been but natural that ...
... father - had asked no question as to what hands were set to tend him , nor in what direction lay the cave in which he was sheltered . Such queries would have been useless - she could do nothing ; yet it would have been but natural that ...
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... father was wealthy , a master mechanic , mayor of the town , and , at the time of his death , represented his district in Congress . Underneath his official robes , however , must have beat the heart of a Gordon Cumming . But he quelled ...
... father was wealthy , a master mechanic , mayor of the town , and , at the time of his death , represented his district in Congress . Underneath his official robes , however , must have beat the heart of a Gordon Cumming . But he quelled ...
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