Temple Bar, Том 31Ward and Lock, 1871 |
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... Emma Marsland , yonder plain - looking English girl , who is eating cakes and drinking afternoon coffee under the shadow of the lindens , is drunk to - day ! She shows , I must admit , few outward signs by which you could guess at her ...
... Emma Marsland , yonder plain - looking English girl , who is eating cakes and drinking afternoon coffee under the shadow of the lindens , is drunk to - day ! She shows , I must admit , few outward signs by which you could guess at her ...
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... Emma laughs and laughs again , a rather tittering little school - girl laugh , at Rawdon's exquisite stroke of humour . " You are glad enough to get your own sherry - and - bitters of an afternoon , -you know you are , Rawdon , and you ...
... Emma laughs and laughs again , a rather tittering little school - girl laugh , at Rawdon's exquisite stroke of humour . " You are glad enough to get your own sherry - and - bitters of an afternoon , -you know you are , Rawdon , and you ...
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... Emma Marsland . I have already broken to the reader that Emma is plain . Let me soften that worst indictment that can be brought against any young woman in the position of a heroine , by adding that she has thirty thousand pounds . A ...
... Emma Marsland . I have already broken to the reader that Emma is plain . Let me soften that worst indictment that can be brought against any young woman in the position of a heroine , by adding that she has thirty thousand pounds . A ...
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... Emma generally gets a sufficiency of partners at the Chalkshire balls ; but no man , Rawdon included , dances more than his one or two set duty dances with her . Everyone likes Emma . Everyone has a favourable word to say for her . She ...
... Emma generally gets a sufficiency of partners at the Chalkshire balls ; but no man , Rawdon included , dances more than his one or two set duty dances with her . Everyone likes Emma . Everyone has a favourable word to say for her . She ...
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... Emma's presence , you must know , -any one with proper feeling must know that our position as regards him and - his - household will be most delicate . Emma , my dear , what is that splendid scarlet creeper , yonder , round the trellis ...
... Emma's presence , you must know , -any one with proper feeling must know that our position as regards him and - his - household will be most delicate . Emma , my dear , what is that splendid scarlet creeper , yonder , round the trellis ...
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