A New Home--who'll Follow?: Or, Glimpses of Western LifeC. S. Francis, 1839 - 337页 |
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... Nippers declares , " because the society wanted to get remnants from the store ! " Mrs. Campaspe Nippers is a widow lady of some thirty - five , or thereabouts , who lives with her niece alone in a small house , in the midst of a small ...
... Nippers declares , " because the society wanted to get remnants from the store ! " Mrs. Campaspe Nippers is a widow lady of some thirty - five , or thereabouts , who lives with her niece alone in a small house , in the midst of a small ...
第223页
... Nippers , and herniece , Miss Artemisia Clinch , know all about it , and tell it to everybody who will listen to them . A sad rumour was raised last winter , by some spite- ful gossip , against a poor woman who had taken lodg . ers to ...
... Nippers , and herniece , Miss Artemisia Clinch , know all about it , and tell it to everybody who will listen to them . A sad rumour was raised last winter , by some spite- ful gossip , against a poor woman who had taken lodg . ers to ...
第224页
... Nippers does , I dare say , - this same widow - lady espoused the thing warmly , don- ned her India - rubbers , and went all over through the sticky mud , breakfasted with me , dined with Mrs. Ri- vers , took tea with Mrs. Skinner , and ...
... Nippers does , I dare say , - this same widow - lady espoused the thing warmly , don- ned her India - rubbers , and went all over through the sticky mud , breakfasted with me , dined with Mrs. Ri- vers , took tea with Mrs. Skinner , and ...
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... Nippers ' name was perversely omitted in the animated ballot for dignities . No one said a word , but every one had a sort of undefined dread of so active a member , and , by tacit consent , every office which she had herself contrived ...
... Nippers ' name was perversely omitted in the animated ballot for dignities . No one said a word , but every one had a sort of undefined dread of so active a member , and , by tacit consent , every office which she had herself contrived ...
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... Nippers emerge from the little front door of her tiny mansion , unattended by her niece for a marvel , and pace majestically down Main - street . I watched her in something of her own prying spirit , to see whither she could be going so ...
... Nippers emerge from the little front door of her tiny mansion , unattended by her niece for a marvel , and pace majestically down Main - street . I watched her in something of her own prying spirit , to see whither she could be going so ...
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第250页 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
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