Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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... wife , This is a dismal case , my dear , indeed , and something must be done . His wife fell a raving at him : What , says she , do you want to have four children to keep ? Have we not children of our own ? Would you have these brats ...
... wife , This is a dismal case , my dear , indeed , and something must be done . His wife fell a raving at him : What , says she , do you want to have four children to keep ? Have we not children of our own ? Would you have these brats ...
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... wife , ' tis a good security for our children to keep what we have together , and provide for them , and then ' tis time enough to help keep other folks children . Charity begins at home . Well , my dear , says he again , I only talk of ...
... wife , ' tis a good security for our children to keep what we have together , and provide for them , and then ' tis time enough to help keep other folks children . Charity begins at home . Well , my dear , says he again , I only talk of ...
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... wife ; I'll keep none of them . Well , my dear , says her husband , but I value it , for I won't have such a blot lie upon the family , and upon your children ; he was a worthy , ancient , and good man , and his name is respected among ...
... wife ; I'll keep none of them . Well , my dear , says her husband , but I value it , for I won't have such a blot lie upon the family , and upon your children ; he was a worthy , ancient , and good man , and his name is respected among ...
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... wife's consent , who was of a disposition not so tender and compassionate as her husband . You may believe I heard this with the same pleasure which I now feel at the relating it again ; for I was terribly af- frighted at the ...
... wife's consent , who was of a disposition not so tender and compassionate as her husband . You may believe I heard this with the same pleasure which I now feel at the relating it again ; for I was terribly af- frighted at the ...
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... wife and he had been parted for some reasons , which make too long a story to intermix with mine ) , yet that he would be everything else that a woman could ask in a husband ; and with that he kissed me again , and took me in his arms ...
... wife and he had been parted for some reasons , which make too long a story to intermix with mine ) , yet that he would be everything else that a woman could ask in a husband ; and with that he kissed me again , and took me in his arms ...
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