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... whole flat country which for miles lay before me . The sunset was past , the last golden tints had long faded away , the moon was slowly ascending from the horizon , showing an opalescent halo of rainbow colours , and now and then a few ...
... whole flat country which for miles lay before me . The sunset was past , the last golden tints had long faded away , the moon was slowly ascending from the horizon , showing an opalescent halo of rainbow colours , and now and then a few ...
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... whole household was soon in a terrible confusion . M. and Madame de Meilhan were distracted ; messengers were sent everywhere , but no one had seen anything . Days , months , and years passed , and still no discovery had been made ...
... whole household was soon in a terrible confusion . M. and Madame de Meilhan were distracted ; messengers were sent everywhere , but no one had seen anything . Days , months , and years passed , and still no discovery had been made ...
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... whole face , whether of suffering or sorrow , I knew not . " Where have I seen this face ? " I asked to myself , and then involuntarily said , " Your face seems familiar to me , and yet I cannot 44 A CHEQUERED LIFE .
... whole face , whether of suffering or sorrow , I knew not . " Where have I seen this face ? " I asked to myself , and then involuntarily said , " Your face seems familiar to me , and yet I cannot 44 A CHEQUERED LIFE .
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... whole country before us , and peal after peal of thunder roared over our heads . The woman was in and out to lay the cloth ; then came an " omelette au lard , " whose savoury smell sharpened our appetites still more ; a cheese made with ...
... whole country before us , and peal after peal of thunder roared over our heads . The woman was in and out to lay the cloth ; then came an " omelette au lard , " whose savoury smell sharpened our appetites still more ; a cheese made with ...
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... was a woman when the whole nation was concerned ? She was still the Empress , and when we parted I might have fancied her on the throne of the Tuileries . In the following spring we left Paris for Bransac , JOSEPHINE . 55.
... was a woman when the whole nation was concerned ? She was still the Empress , and when we parted I might have fancied her on the throne of the Tuileries . In the following spring we left Paris for Bransac , JOSEPHINE . 55.
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