Madam How and Lady Why; OrMacmillan and Company, 1885 - 321 páginas |
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... happens : or whether they will let other people look for them , or pretend to look , and dupe them , and lead them about the blind leading the blind , till both fall into the ditch . I say " good boys ; " not merely clever boys , or ...
... happens : or whether they will let other people look for them , or pretend to look , and dupe them , and lead them about the blind leading the blind , till both fall into the ditch . I say " good boys ; " not merely clever boys , or ...
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... happen , but only " The Way in which they happen . " However , I must not blame these good folks : for I have made the same mistake myself often , and may do it again : Dut all the more shame to me . For see - you know perfectly the ...
... happen , but only " The Way in which they happen . " However , I must not blame these good folks : for I have made the same mistake myself often , and may do it again : Dut all the more shame to me . For see - you know perfectly the ...
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... happen hundreds of years hence in a star millions of miles away . And I really believe that Madam How knows her work so thoroughly , that the grain of sand which sticks now to your shoe , and the weight of Mrs. Daddy- long - legs ' eggs ...
... happen hundreds of years hence in a star millions of miles away . And I really believe that Madam How knows her work so thoroughly , that the grain of sand which sticks now to your shoe , and the weight of Mrs. Daddy- long - legs ' eggs ...
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... happen to it just as useful in the long run ; for Madam How never loses anything , but uses up all her scraps and odds and ends somehow , somewhere , some- when , as is fit and proper for the Housekeeper of the whole Universe . Indeed ...
... happen to it just as useful in the long run ; for Madam How never loses anything , but uses up all her scraps and odds and ends somehow , somewhere , some- when , as is fit and proper for the Housekeeper of the whole Universe . Indeed ...
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... happened to this glen ; and so , while I was trying to find what was not there , I of course found nothing . But when I put them all out of my head , and began to look for what was there , I found it at once and lo and behold ! I had ...
... happened to this glen ; and so , while I was trying to find what was not there , I of course found nothing . But when I put them all out of my head , and began to look for what was there , I found it at once and lo and behold ! I had ...
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Página 160 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling ; And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel, With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel, — And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river ; For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
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