Gossip about Letters and Letter-writersEdmonston and Douglas, 1873 - 256 pages |
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... leaving home for a short time , that the first letter she wrote to him would not be without one of these codicils . Nothing seemed more certain than that the lady would win . The letter was written and signed , and about to be ...
... leaving home for a short time , that the first letter she wrote to him would not be without one of these codicils . Nothing seemed more certain than that the lady would win . The letter was written and signed , and about to be ...
Page 31
... leaving a son and a daughter , to whose education the young widow religiously devoted herself . Immediately after her daughter's marriage , in 1669 , to the Count de Grignan , Lieutenant - General in Languedoc , she commenced that long ...
... leaving a son and a daughter , to whose education the young widow religiously devoted herself . Immediately after her daughter's marriage , in 1669 , to the Count de Grignan , Lieutenant - General in Languedoc , she commenced that long ...
Page 65
... leaving his generous conduct to speak for itself . It now approached six o'clock in the evening ; and as I had eaten no breakfast , and as my spirits were E 66 Chequered Experiences raised , my appetite for dinner grew.
... leaving his generous conduct to speak for itself . It now approached six o'clock in the evening ; and as I had eaten no breakfast , and as my spirits were E 66 Chequered Experiences raised , my appetite for dinner grew.
Page 68
... leaving me to add this to the other little things the counsellor already knew of his plausible neighbour . And now , my dear mother , I found sufficient to re- concile me to all my follies ; for here I spent three whole days . The ...
... leaving me to add this to the other little things the counsellor already knew of his plausible neighbour . And now , my dear mother , I found sufficient to re- concile me to all my follies ; for here I spent three whole days . The ...
Page 91
... leaving this branch of my subject , I may notice three interesting epistles penned far beyond the pale of European civilisation . Shortly after the lamented death of Captain Speke the traveller , His Highness Sured Majid , one of the ...
... leaving this branch of my subject , I may notice three interesting epistles penned far beyond the pale of European civilisation . Shortly after the lamented death of Captain Speke the traveller , His Highness Sured Majid , one of the ...
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