Everley [by miss Cornish].1855 |
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... ladies in my father's parish , who will walk through the street in an old shawl and a plain bonnet , and carry a dinner on a plate in their hands , or a roll of flannel under their arm , to the poorest person in the parish , but who if ...
... ladies in my father's parish , who will walk through the street in an old shawl and a plain bonnet , and carry a dinner on a plate in their hands , or a roll of flannel under their arm , to the poorest person in the parish , but who if ...
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Cornish. had no place in her catalogue of necessary attain- ments for young ladies . With the remembrance of Miss Taylor and the schoolroom at Everley , came to Evelyn's mind the ceaseless interruptions , the parties , picnics , visitors ...
Cornish. had no place in her catalogue of necessary attain- ments for young ladies . With the remembrance of Miss Taylor and the schoolroom at Everley , came to Evelyn's mind the ceaseless interruptions , the parties , picnics , visitors ...
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... lady - like and graceful , and hoped she would be pretty and toler- ably accomplished , because then there would be ... ladies , therefore there was more excuse for her than for those mothers who having been blessed with a far better and ...
... lady - like and graceful , and hoped she would be pretty and toler- ably accomplished , because then there would be ... ladies , therefore there was more excuse for her than for those mothers who having been blessed with a far better and ...
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... lady - like way what hundreds of others do openly and unblushingly , and although Mrs. Falconer , as far as lay in ... ladies is as familiar as their alphabet , or the first lessons of their child- hood . Or , if she had heard of such ...
... lady - like way what hundreds of others do openly and unblushingly , and although Mrs. Falconer , as far as lay in ... ladies is as familiar as their alphabet , or the first lessons of their child- hood . Or , if she had heard of such ...
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... lady , Evelyn ! Why the Phillipsons wouldn't do such a thing , and you a Miss Falconer of Everley . " " The respectability of the Falconers of Everley doesn't depend on a cloak or a bonnet , I hope , Augusta dear ? " 66 Really , Evelyn ...
... lady , Evelyn ! Why the Phillipsons wouldn't do such a thing , and you a Miss Falconer of Everley . " " The respectability of the Falconers of Everley doesn't depend on a cloak or a bonnet , I hope , Augusta dear ? " 66 Really , Evelyn ...
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Page 216 - Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place.
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