The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 páginas |
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... ladies ' maids of their grandmothers might have read in secret but would have blushed while reading . Each age would do better if it studied its own faults and endeavoured to mend them , instead of comparing itself with others to its ...
... ladies ' maids of their grandmothers might have read in secret but would have blushed while reading . Each age would do better if it studied its own faults and endeavoured to mend them , instead of comparing itself with others to its ...
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... ladies of the forest , the birch trees beside the line about Farnborough , were hung with jewels of ice , and glittered like a fretwork of purple and silver . It was like escaping out of a nightmare into happy healthy England once more ...
... ladies of the forest , the birch trees beside the line about Farnborough , were hung with jewels of ice , and glittered like a fretwork of purple and silver . It was like escaping out of a nightmare into happy healthy England once more ...
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... ladies . For a brief interval care and anxiety had spread their wings and flown away , and existence itself became delightful . There was a young scientific man on board who interested me much . He had been sent out from Kew to take ...
... ladies . For a brief interval care and anxiety had spread their wings and flown away , and existence itself became delightful . There was a young scientific man on board who interested me much . He had been sent out from Kew to take ...
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... ladies played with him as they would play with a monkey . He had little more sense than a monkey , perhaps less , and ... lady . This is one of the most sinister features in the present state of social life there . Small personalities ...
... ladies played with him as they would play with a monkey . He had little more sense than a monkey , perhaps less , and ... lady . This is one of the most sinister features in the present state of social life there . Small personalities ...
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... lady were all that was polite and hospitable . They invited me to make their house my home during my stay , and more ... ladies , he must entertain the officers of the garrison . When the West Indian squadron.
... lady were all that was polite and hospitable . They invited me to make their house my home during my stay , and more ... ladies , he must entertain the officers of the garrison . When the West Indian squadron.
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