The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe, Volume 4Bell & Daldy, 1854 |
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... occasion to speak of it again ; my case was particularly hard , for I had a variety of foolish things complicated in this unhappy match . First , and which I must confess is very unsufferable , he was a conceited fool , tout opiniatre ...
... occasion to speak of it again ; my case was particularly hard , for I had a variety of foolish things complicated in this unhappy match . First , and which I must confess is very unsufferable , he was a conceited fool , tout opiniatre ...
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... occasion , they sat down , like Job's three comforters , and said not one word to me for a great while , but both of them cried as fast and as heartily as I did . The truth was , there was no need of much discourse in the case , the ...
... occasion , they sat down , like Job's three comforters , and said not one word to me for a great while , but both of them cried as fast and as heartily as I did . The truth was , there was no need of much discourse in the case , the ...
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... occasion of my coming , for I came on purpose about this very business , and to have prevented this being put upon you , if I could , but I see I am come too late . How do you mean too late ? says the mistress ; what ! have you been ...
... occasion of my coming , for I came on purpose about this very business , and to have prevented this being put upon you , if I could , but I see I am come too late . How do you mean too late ? says the mistress ; what ! have you been ...
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... occasion . When all was done to his mind , as to placing the goods , he seemed very well pleased , and we dined together again of his own providing ; and , the upholsterer's man gone , after dinner he took me by the hand ; Come now ...
... occasion . When all was done to his mind , as to placing the goods , he seemed very well pleased , and we dined together again of his own providing ; and , the upholsterer's man gone , after dinner he took me by the hand ; Come now ...
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... occasion to use the ordinary ceremony of delay , or to wait a reasonable time of courtship , which was only to avoid scandal ; but , as this was private , it had nothing of that nature in it ; that he had been courting me some time by ...
... occasion to use the ordinary ceremony of delay , or to wait a reasonable time of courtship , which was only to avoid scandal ; but , as this was private , it had nothing of that nature in it ; that he had been courting me some time by ...
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