All the Year Round, Том 3Charles Dickens Charles Dickens, 1860 |
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... morning he is off to his cows and his wives , rich in the white man's silver pennies , to earn which he has given up part of his very life . Generally he will return after a time- almost always if he has been treated kindly , and if his ...
... morning he is off to his cows and his wives , rich in the white man's silver pennies , to earn which he has given up part of his very life . Generally he will return after a time- almost always if he has been treated kindly , and if his ...
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... morning . I count the hours that have passed since I escaped to the shelter of this room , by my own sensations and those hours seem like weeks . How short a time , and yet how long to me- since I sank down in the darkness , here , on ...
... morning . I count the hours that have passed since I escaped to the shelter of this room , by my own sensations and those hours seem like weeks . How short a time , and yet how long to me- since I sank down in the darkness , here , on ...
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... morning . She had put the letter addressed to that obtrusive stranger , the gentleman in London , into the post ; and had now delivered the other letter into my hands , as she was told . This was the plain truth ; and , though she could ...
... morning . She had put the letter addressed to that obtrusive stranger , the gentleman in London , into the post ; and had now delivered the other letter into my hands , as she was told . This was the plain truth ; and , though she could ...
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... morning ! " Something , outside or inside this singular girl , suddenly creaked . Louis , who was looking at her ( which I was not ) says she creaked when she curtseyed . Curious . Was it her shoes , her stays , or her bones ? Louis ...
... morning ! " Something , outside or inside this singular girl , suddenly creaked . Louis , who was looking at her ( which I was not ) says she creaked when she curtseyed . Curious . Was it her shoes , her stays , or her bones ? Louis ...
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... morning and evening greetings , and to wist- and wheel about the square to repulse a crowd ful looks into her lodge to see if there were any that was not there - all in a spectral , mournful letters for me in the rack above my number ...
... morning and evening greetings , and to wist- and wheel about the square to repulse a crowd ful looks into her lodge to see if there were any that was not there - all in a spectral , mournful letters for me in the rack above my number ...
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