Gossip about Letters and Letter-writersEdmonston and Douglas, 1873 - 256 pages |
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... wife the youthful patriarch sent , The camel , jewels , and the steward went , And wealthy equipage , though grave and slow ; But not a line that might the lover show . The ring and bracelets wooed her hands and arms , But had she known ...
... wife the youthful patriarch sent , The camel , jewels , and the steward went , And wealthy equipage , though grave and slow ; But not a line that might the lover show . The ring and bracelets wooed her hands and arms , But had she known ...
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... wife or his daughter to wield the pen on his behalf.1 1 See some interesting criticism on a lady's letter - writing , at p . 96 of Lord Lindsay's recently published Memoir of Lady Anna Mackenzie , Countess of Balcarres and Argyll ...
... wife or his daughter to wield the pen on his behalf.1 1 See some interesting criticism on a lady's letter - writing , at p . 96 of Lord Lindsay's recently published Memoir of Lady Anna Mackenzie , Countess of Balcarres and Argyll ...
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... wife or lover -whose expression of affection is , of course , quite inexhaustible - the practice of crossing letters ought to be universally condemned- more especially in these days of cheap paper and postage ; and when occasionally ...
... wife or lover -whose expression of affection is , of course , quite inexhaustible - the practice of crossing letters ought to be universally condemned- more especially in these days of cheap paper and postage ; and when occasionally ...
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... wives of Great Britain and Ireland : - -- ' Je vous écris parceque je n'ai rien à faire ; Je finis parceque je n'ai rien à dire . ' Postscripts , again , have been somewhat se- verely described as embracing the chief point of a lady's ...
... wives of Great Britain and Ireland : - -- ' Je vous écris parceque je n'ai rien à faire ; Je finis parceque je n'ai rien à dire . ' Postscripts , again , have been somewhat se- verely described as embracing the chief point of a lady's ...
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... wife that he would go say a little devotion in his garden , and then he would dine ; and forthwith he felt a fainting in his leg , and syyd ( slid ) down ; this was at nine of the clock , and he was dead ere noon . My cousin Clere prays ...
... wife that he would go say a little devotion in his garden , and then he would dine ; and forthwith he felt a fainting in his leg , and syyd ( slid ) down ; this was at nine of the clock , and he was dead ere noon . My cousin Clere prays ...
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