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...y his party—from an individual not showing any readiness to face the whole charges, disingenuously dissembling the worst of them, and finally offering... ... but by a most refined theory of poetic effects. I. The first of these two charges respects a supposed ped- antry, or too ambitious a display of erudi... ...ed ‘ Abraham men’ in southern England, were not held to have forfeited any heraldic dignity attached to the rank of pauper, (which was considerable,) ... ...name except in Lon- don. Raumer is not an honest man. But had he fixed his charges on the book-decorators amongst us, what an unlim- ited field for ri... ...d for itself an appropriate channel. No longer were social parties the old heraldic solemnities4 enjoined by red letters in the almanac, in which the ... ...of Terrors has transfigured itself into the Cape of Good Hope. NOTE 4. ‘Heraldic solemnities’— ‘Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare; ...

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... beads, and exclaimed at the tossed hair and soiled hands and faces of her charges. Mary brought the little ones to her to be set to rights, and the e... ...ontrol girl- ish petulance and inexperience in the strange lands where her charges must appear at their very best, to do honour to their birth and the... ...ee the world under Sir Patrick’s guidance, and that he would be at his own charges. ‘And I’ll be answerable for him, sir,’ concluded the lad. ‘ Answer... ...ertaken, and made Sir Patrick Drummond understand, that he would be at all charges for his nieces, and further said that merchants with women’s gear w... ... went a good way in exchange, and though he had spoken of being at his own charges, he had found himself compelled to live as one of the train of the ... ...old- edged pillows, under an enormous, stiff, heavy quilt, gor- geous with heraldic colours and devices, her pale cheeks flushed with fever, her breat... ...ain camlet riding kirtles that she and Lady Lindsay had worn, she donned a heraldic sort of garment, a tissue of white and gold thread, with the red l...

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...angels stand by the side of History, whether French History or English, as heraldic sup- 55 porters: the angel of Research on the left hand, that mus... ...nt to any busi- ness before the court, or that entered into the ridiculous charges against her. General questions were proposed to her on points of ca... ... creatures that would have pitied her profoundly as regarded all political charges, had their natural feelings warped by the belief that she had deali... ...f human charities and hu- man loveliness that have perished, but quartered heraldically with unutterable horrors of monstrous and demoniac natures, wh... ...find a separate chapter or a supple- ment dedicated to what is denominated heraldic zoology. And why not? For these hideous creatures, however visiona... ...uction to such appear- ances (whether causal, or merely casual) lay in the heraldic monsters, (which monsters were themselves introduced though playfu...

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...f human charities and human love- liness that have perished, but quartered heraldically with unutterable and demoniac natures, whilst over all rises, ... ...angels stand by the side of History, whether French history or English, as heraldic sup- porters: the angel of research on the left hand, that must re... ...nt to any busi- ness before the court, or that entered into the ridiculous charges against her. General questions were proposed to her on points of ca... ...creatures that would have pitied her profoundly, as regarded all political charges, had their natural feelings warped by the belief that she had deal-...

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..., apart, yet in himself, came to him—a blue desperate figure leading lurid charges with one knee forward and a broken blade high—a blue, de- termined ... ...nto his blanket. He stared for a while at the leaves overhead, moving in a heraldic wind of the day. The distance was splintering and blaring with the...

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...people still believed it would be a matter of bright uniforms and shouting charges and triumphs and flags and bands—in a time when half the world drew... ...wn marketable value, and his infrequent words were carved and wrought into heraldic grotesqueness. Holroyd tried to elucidate his religious beliefs, a...

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... the dauntless English infantry were re- ceiving and repelling the furious charges of the French horse- men. Guns which were heard at Brussels were pl... ...the mortgage to the brother butler; and the insurance of his life; and the charges for his children at school; and the value of the meat and drink whi... ...shilling of the money, having buried his friend, and paid all the fees and charges incident upon the calamity and removal of poor Amelia. About these ... ... godfather and guard- ian hinted that he hoped to be allowed to defray the charges of the boy’s education, which would fall heavily upon his mother’s ... ...ced there as a token of mourning for Sir Pitt Crawley’s de- mise, yet this heraldic emblem was in itself a very splendid and gaudy piece of furniture,... ... house of Camelot con- spired in her behalf. It was as much injured by its charges in fitting out an armament against the Spaniards, during the time o...

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...littering steel armor, covered with surcoats richly embroidered with their heraldic bearings; his stout men-at- arms, each of whom was attended by thr... ... Emperor, to hear the monstrous sentence that for sorcery, and other heavy charges, he was to be imprisoned for life. He said no reproachful word, onl... ...dangerous precedent if prison chap- lains were to change places with their charges; and, beautiful as was Vincent’s spirit, the act can hardly be just... ...ed the utmost caution. Rupert, on the other hand, had seen the swift fiery charges of the fierce troop- ers of the Thirty Years’ war, and was backed u...

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...te at our Great Pavilionstone Hotel, say but the word, look at the list of charges, choose your floor, name your figure—there you are, established in ... ...eeling in the pauper nurses which appeared to make them more kind to their charges than the race of common nurses in the hospitals—as if he mused upon... ...e ‘back hair’ of an untidy woman, who won’t be shod, and who makes himself heraldic by clattering across the street on his hind legs, while twenty voi... ...wy, rather unreliable dogs: who might worry me instead of their legitimate charges if they saw occasion—and might see it somewhat suddenly. The market...

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...she stalked out. In a few moments she stalked in again, proclaiming in her heraldic manner, ‘Mr Rokesmith is the bearer of a packet for Miss Bella Wil... ...ir livings by the sweats of their brows, and is to make these here sort of charges with no rhyme and no reason, neither the one nor yet the other! Why... ...steriously received, she knew not from whom, an explicit retraction of the charges made against her father, by another water-side character of the nam... ...mother in their infancy—had previously played fast and loose with the said charges, and, in fact, abandoned them. How- ever, the retraction I have men...

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...ng, they are selected; all dressed in red; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain; and fe... ...of the Godlike. Under a like category, too, stand, or stood, the stupidest heraldic Coats-of-arms; military Banners everywhere; and generally all nati...

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.... A very handsome modern cathedral, built by the present bishop at his own charges, was the finest of the public edifices we saw; it was not, however,... ... there!The Church of the Knights of St. John is paved over with sprawling heraldic devices of the dead gentlemen of the dead Order; as if, in the nex...

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...tion of his property; Cornelius belonged to the merchant-bourgeoisie, who were prouder of their richly emblazoned shop signs than the hereditary nobil... ...hands — but, thank God! in vain, as it was a stratagem to discover your intentions. Say, do you deny all this?” Boxtel did not deem it fit to answer t...

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...eed, she took on when George was removed from her. Old Sedley forgot these charges as he was making up his last account, and did justice to the gentle... ...cellency for the payment of certain outstanding debts and liabilities, the charges incident on his high situation required considerable expense; final... ...rushed down an alley of the garden as Lord Steyne’s barouche, blazing with heraldic devices, came whirling along the avenue, borne by the almost price...

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...bat of Chiclana, or Barossa as you call it. I was in the Eighth of the Line; we lost the eagle of the First Battalion, more betoken, but it cost you d... ... of my expo- sure, it was best to pretend to none. And I dubbed myself a young gentleman of a sufficient fortune and an idle, curi- ous habit of mind,... ...have notticed that stone,’ touching it at the same time with a goodly oak staff. I followed the indication. The stone, which had been built sideways i...

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...sced. 173 Melville This interview was decisive. Sensible that none of the charges brought against us would stand, yet unwilling for- mally to withdra... ...maintained to be the arms of the royal House of Pomaree. The device had an heraldic look, cer- tainly—being two sharks with the talons of hawks clawin... ...sticated in the family of the head chief or king; where he frequently dis- charges the functions of various offices, elsewhere filled by as many diffe...

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...to expend itself quickly, and when little George’s coffin, smothered under heraldic devices and funeral escutcheons, had been bestowed in the family v... ... satin coverlet, worked in large separate squares, innumerable shields and heraldic devices of Lorraine, Bourbon, France, Scotland, etc., round the bo... ...ated Marie de Courcelles, “dearest madam, take courage. All these horrible charges refute themselves.” “ Ah, Marie! you have said so ten thousand time... ...-day meal, she reiterated her thanks for his care of her daughter, and her charges to let no persuasion induce him to consent to Babington’s overtures... ... would save your household the charge, sir,” said Mary, “and I would be at charges for them.” “Madam, I can bear the charge in the Queen’s service. Y ... ... unnecessary rudeness, but rather as if he were glad of any comfort to his charges, “Here, sirs, is a gentleman to visit you.” They had both risen at ... ..., my poor maid.” So Master Richard betook him to the knight, a man of many charges, and made known that finding his daughter somewhat puling and sickl...

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...l the churches in London. And what better answer can there be to Osborne’s charges against you, as charges there are, than that his son claims to ente... ... the dauntless English infantry were re- ceiving and repelling the furious charges of the French horse- men. Guns which were heard at Brussels were pl... ...the mortgage to the brother butler; and the insurance of his life; and the charges for his children at school; and the value of the meat and drink whi... ...shilling of the money, having buried his friend, and paid all the fees and charges incident upon the calamity and removal of poor Amelia. About these ... ... godfather and guard- ian hinted that he hoped to be allowed to defray the charges of the boy’s education, which would fall heavily upon his mother’s ... ...ced there as a token of mourning for Sir Pitt Crawley’s de- mise, yet this heraldic emblem was in itself a very splendid and gaudy piece of furniture,... ...rushed down an alley of the garden as Lord Steyne’s barouche, blazing with heraldic devices, came whirling along the avenue, borne by the almost price...

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...as treated us.’ ‘ Ah! on that system, where would have been all your grand heraldic pedigrees? I’ve got them still.’ 65 Yo n g e ‘Oh! Jenny, you good... ... Minnie;’ and, on encour- agement, launched into such a description of her charges— the blacksmith’s small children—that Lady Phyllis went back, not w...

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...ation; but the sign was strong and new, and brightly painted, displaying a heraldic shield (three shuttles in a field diapre), a web partly unfolded f... ...is mother took possession of the same as her jointure-house, “to his great charges and expenses he caused box the walls of the great parlour” (in whic...

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...ri IV., have had their moment de peur, I cannot tell; but there were other charges. I cannot give date or details. There is no record among the papers... ...rry as I looked round at the curious old room, with its panelled roof, the heraldic devices and badges of the Power family, and the trophy of swords, ...

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..., my sweet Renee, I promise to show all the lenity in my power; but if the charges brought against this Bonapartist hero prove correct, why, then, you... ...st show me the proofs against him.” “Certainly; but you will find terrible charges.” “Monsieur,” continued Dantes, “I know it is not in your power to ... ...r than the things that I have noticed on your monuments, and which have no heraldic meaning whatever. As for you, viscount,” continued Monte Cristo to... ...urmounted by a baron’s coronet.” “By heaven, M. Bertuccio, you make use of heraldic terms; where did you study heraldry?” “In your service, excellency...

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...ppen to be too slightly diversified. But that he did not be- lieve his own charges was clear, because he never repeated them in his “General History o... ...le cases of deliverance, so sudden and so unlooked for, signalized by what heraldically might have been described as a two-headed memorial, the establ... ...choose, by placing these witnesses upon a pedestal of honor, surmounted by heraldic trophies, to emblazon his own transgressions to coming generations... ...o an old Oxford statute—one of the many which meddle with dress, and which charges it as a point of conscience upon loyal scholastic students that the...

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...ng sightless or born blind. Tess walked up to this lady with her feathered charges — one sitting on each arm. ‘Ah, you are the young woman come to loo... ...e who would love and cherish and defend her under any conditions, changes, charges, or revelations, that her gloom lessened as she basked in it. The s... ...s called the d’Urberville Window, and in the upper part could be discerned heraldic emblems like those on Durbeyfield’s old seal and spoon. Joan drew t...

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...o me!’ which proclamation, though grandly formal, and one might almost say heraldic, to hear, was in fact enunciated with her maternal eyes reproachfu... ...she stalked out. In a few moments she stalked in again, proclaiming in her heraldic manner, ‘Mr Rokesmith is the bearer of a packet for Miss Bella Wil... ...ir livings by the sweats of their brows, and is to make these here sort of charges with no rhyme and no reason, neither the one nor yet the other! Why... ...steriously received, she knew not from whom, an explicit retraction of the charges made against her father, by another water-side character of the nam... ...mother in their infancy—had previously played fast and loose with the said charges, and, in fact, abandoned them. How- ever, the retraction I have men... ... pay in full, and you cannot pay too promptly, or you will be put to heavy charges. Trust nothing to me, sir. Money, money, money.’ When he had said t...

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...auded me through its agent and creature the post-office, by monstrous over-charges on letters, had thus created in my behalf a right of retalia- tion.... ...erstein. And when I see so many goodly barns and garners, with their jolly charges of hay and corn, that would feed one of Holkerstein’s garrisons thr... ... the stationary character of the sounds, and the contin- ued recurrence of charges and retreats sounded upon the trumpet, it became evident that the t... ...perfect way, by the interrupted and recurring echoes of the points of war— charges or retreats—sounded upon the trumpet. But, whilst on the outside of... ...t with some circumstances of fic- tion. In defending Maximilian upon those charges, his friends had betrayed a natural warmth at the injustice offered... ...ey draperies of the most magnificent velvet, intermingled with banners and heraldic trophies suspended from the ceiling, and at intervals slowly agita...

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...ale; till the Quaker at length yielded up the bridle to him, repeating his charges, and enforcing them by holding up his forefinger. On my part, I cal... ... was a man 158 Redgauntlet of business of the old school, moderate in his charges, eco- nomical and even niggardly in his expenditure, strictly hon- ... ...cending some stone steps decorated on the side with griffins, or some such heraldic anomalies, attained a terrace extending in front of the Place of F... ...e? The yill is no amiss.’ ‘Thou mayst call for what thou wilt on thine own charges, friend,’ said Geddes; ‘for myself, I willingly contribute to the q... ...an, and I charge thee, as a Christian, to forbear vexing my soul with such charges: it is grievous enough to me to have seen violences which I was una...

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...r of his parchments, he was loquaciously full of anecdotes, recollections, heraldic knowl- edge; in short, he was exactly the old noble, ignorant and ... ...ulting insinuations colored his absence with an appearance of escaping the charges. The effect of these attacks was all the greater be- cause Sallenau...

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..., at once seizing a wand, and be- striding the nearest bench. Two or three charges rendered the boy so uproarious, that presently he was ordered off, ... ...th so fragile, so delicate.’ Her soul was evidently with them and with her charges, of whom there was so much to say, that the carriage came all too s... ...Lucy, but covered with streams and spatters of flowing sable tears, like a heraldic decoration, over face, neck, and dress. All unconscious, she came ... ...e! But no one ever knew the terror she had suffered, when of all her three charges not one was safe but the little Albinia, whose ‘poor Maurice’ and ‘...

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...wn marketable value, and his infrequent words were carved and wrought into heraldic grotesqueness. Holroyd tried to elucidate his religious beliefs, a... ...s entire fortune, a matter of about five hundred pounds after all outgoing charges were paid. I was then eighteen. He advised me in his will to expend... ...people still believed it would be a matter of bright uniforms and shouting charges and triumphs and flags and bands—in a time when half the world drew...

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...in question, the Chuzzlewits were connected by a bend sinister, or kind of heraldic over-the-left, with some unknown noble and illustrious House? From... .... How do you account for that now?’ ‘Perhaps it is because an undertaker’s charges comes dearer than a nurse’s charges, sir,’ said Mrs Gamp, tittering... .... We knows each other’s ways, and often gives relief when others fail. Our charges is but low, sir’—Mrs Gamp addressed her- self to John on this head—... ...nds and classes of bills is without exception the most unreasonable in its charges—Mr Bailey, Junior , just tall enough 396 Martin Chuzzlewit to be s... ... for though it threatened to reduce his poor purse with unexpected country charges, it afforded him an oppor- tunity of writing to Mrs Lupin and appoi... ...eping for Tom implied the ut- most complication of grave trusts and mighty charges. Well might she take the keys out of the little chiffonier which he...

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... him for the ignorance in which the weather-beaten sign left him as to the heraldic bearings of that ancient family, the Donnithornes. Mr. Casson, the... ...had a language that transcended her feelings. There are faces which nature charges with a meaning and pathos not belonging to the single human soul th...

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... prepares to test the length of Jonah’s purse, ere he judge him openly. He charges him thrice the usual sum; and it’s assented to. Then the Captain kn... ...e dumb gloating of their aspect. So that not the fierce fanged tiger in his heraldic coat can so stagger courage as the white shrouded bear or shark. 1...

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...ring, they are selected; all dressed in red; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain; and ... ...g of the Godlike. Under a like category, too, stand, or stood, the stupidest heraldic Coats of arms; military Banners everywhere; and generally all na...

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...nument under a new angle of sight, the golden and silver faces of the same heraldic shield. The very same act which denies the right of interpretation... ... in harmony with philosophy; and, as regards the future, Phil., it is that charges Philology with the whole service of divinity. Wherever anything, be... ...he hiatus which it supposes, the insulation and incommunicability which it charges upon the miraculous as a capital oversight, was part of the design:...

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...as if it rolled on ada- mant and the foundations of the world; not on mere heraldic parchment,—under which smoulders a lake of fire. Dance on, ye fool... ...st in these Twelve Hundred? Belief in high-plumed hats of a feudal cut; in heraldic scutcheons; in the divine right of Kings, in the divine right of G... ...fast, like an infected thing; forth of the Champ-de-Mars circuit, and dis- charges it there. Thus too a certain person (of some quality, or private ca... ...s to pay all scores, run up by whomsoever; on him must all break- ages and charges fall; and the twelve hundred on the Tenth of August are not rebel t... ...tion struggling to be re- signed. “Take care of M. Edgeworth,” he straitly charges the Lieutenant who is sitting with them: then they two descend. The... ...f Weissembourg, though physi- cally of a timid apprehensive nature, how he charges with his ‘Alsatian Peasants armed hastily’ for the nonce; the solem... ...russia and the Emigrants roll back again still faster,—hurled with bayonet charges and fiery ca-ira-ing. Ci-devant Serjeant Pichegru, ci-devant Serjea...

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...eers: ‘every man is glad when he escapes from danger; but if any one of my charges had been hurt—if I had been prevented from restoring any one of the... ...man,’ said Nicholas, haughtily , ‘the wife of the fel- low from whom these charges come, dropped—as I suppose— a worthless ring among some clothes of ... ...and emblazoned at the four cor- ners with the Flabella crest, and gorgeous heraldic bearings of that noble family. “Mercie—that will do.” ‘ At this in...

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...e not of one mind as to the exact idea signified. Some declared, with much heraldic warmth, that it was an ad- dress to the savages, calling on them t... ... heir had never hitherto been felt. It had occasionally been encumbered by charges for younger children; but these charges had been liquidated, and th... ...f mar- rying a pauper. By no means in quiescence did the squire hear these charges brought against him. The Lady Arabella, in each attack, got quite a... ...er 283 Anthony Trollope lord and master. What right have we to make these charges? What have we seen in our own personal walks through life to make u...

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...eers: ‘every man is glad when he escapes from danger; but if any one of my charges had been hurt—if I had been prevented from restoring any one of the... ...man,’ said Nicholas, haughtily , ‘the wife of the fel- low from whom these charges come, dropped—as I suppose— a worthless ring among some clothes of ... ...and emblazoned at the four cor- ners with the Flabella crest, and gorgeous heraldic bearings of that noble family. “Mercie—that will do.” ‘ At this in... ...g fat, I’ll be obliged to you. Give it him in his fingers, else the waiter charges it on, and there’s lot of profit on this sort of vittles without th... ...reat 652 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY many sore subjects, charges, and counter-charges. Sir Mulberry was sarcastic; Lord Frederick wa...

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...shalsea, always calculating and planning for Tip, in the front rank of her charges. ‘I am so tired of it,’ said Tip, ‘that I have cut it.’ Tip tired o... ...lectures in the neighbourhood, showing the Bleeding Heart to have been the heraldic cognisance of the old family to whom the property had once belonge... ...eeply regret my circumstances being such that I can’t afford to pay my own charges, or that it’s not advisable to allow me the time necessary for my d...

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...very angry at anything, and he knew how to make capital on his own side of charges such as these which overshot their own mark. Mr Sowerby came down v... ...rained domestic. ‘I’ll wait about, then, ’ said Tom, seating himself on an heraldic griffin which flanked the big stone steps before the house. And in...

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...An instance of the difference between myself and the world, now. The world charges it upon her. I have interceded to exonerate her.” “That was generou... ...the room to Mr. Dale, who was turn- ing over leaves of a grand book of the heraldic devices of our great Families. “Study it,” she said, “study it, my...

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...“He did not in so many words accuse me of—of—but he told me he had serious charges brought against me—Mr. Harrison had seen me at Ballhatchet’s, setti... ...uch in their natural enemies.” “Yes,” said Ethel, “my only doll was like a heraldic lion, couped in all her parts.” “Harry and T om once made a genera...

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