The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe, Volume 4Bell & Daldy, 1854 |
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... thought myself happy when he got another man to take his brewhouse clear off his hands ; for , paying down a large sum of money , my husband found himself a clear man , all his debts paid , and with between two and three thousand pounds ...
... thought myself happy when he got another man to take his brewhouse clear off his hands ; for , paying down a large sum of money , my husband found himself a clear man , all his debts paid , and with between two and three thousand pounds ...
Page 7
... thought they were but words of course now . When he had said he would be gone , I used to wish secretly , and even say in my thoughts , I wish you would , for if you go on thus , you will starve us all . He stayed , however , at home ...
... thought they were but words of course now . When he had said he would be gone , I used to wish secretly , and even say in my thoughts , I wish you would , for if you go on thus , you will starve us all . He stayed , however , at home ...
Page 8
... thought so too , by their treating my maid with very slight and unhandsome returns to her inquiries . This grated hard , and added to my affliction , but I had no recourse but to my tears , for I had not a friend of my own left me in ...
... thought so too , by their treating my maid with very slight and unhandsome returns to her inquiries . This grated hard , and added to my affliction , but I had no recourse but to my tears , for I had not a friend of my own left me in ...
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... thought , and this even when his family was , as it were , starving , that little he had wasting , and that we were all bleeding to death ; he not knowing , and as little considering , where to get another shilling when the last was ...
... thought , and this even when his family was , as it were , starving , that little he had wasting , and that we were all bleeding to death ; he not knowing , and as little considering , where to get another shilling when the last was ...
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... thought that better , for that they were born in that parish , and there they must be provided for ; as for the ... thoughts of parting with my children , and especially at that terrible thing , their being taken into the parish keeping ...
... thought that better , for that they were born in that parish , and there they must be provided for ; as for the ... thoughts of parting with my children , and especially at that terrible thing , their being taken into the parish keeping ...
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