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... feel You will be perfectly Otis's charge , and I " To say that I have thought a great deal about you since I left you , would not express half the truth . It seems to me that I have thought of nothing else . anxious about you at all ...
... feel You will be perfectly Otis's charge , and I " To say that I have thought a great deal about you since I left you , would not express half the truth . It seems to me that I have thought of nothing else . anxious about you at all ...
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... feel very much disappointed and troubled at losing the pleasure I had anticipated in making the return journey with you , through Florence , Turin and Geneva , were it not that my anxiety about my mother fills my mind so completely 38 ...
... feel very much disappointed and troubled at losing the pleasure I had anticipated in making the return journey with you , through Florence , Turin and Geneva , were it not that my anxiety about my mother fills my mind so completely 38 ...
Page 39
... feeling . I am sure you will have a delightful journey . Give my love to the children , and believe me , as ever ... feel greatly distressed , and went on uttering broken exclamations of despair in the midst of his sobbing and tears ...
... feeling . I am sure you will have a delightful journey . Give my love to the children , and believe me , as ever ... feel greatly distressed , and went on uttering broken exclamations of despair in the midst of his sobbing and tears ...
Page 60
... with a feeling of inde- scribable gloom . The country is , however , traversed by magni- ficent roads , broad . smooth , hard and level , and kept always in perfect condition . These roads often present 60 ON THE ROAD .
... with a feeling of inde- scribable gloom . The country is , however , traversed by magni- ficent roads , broad . smooth , hard and level , and kept always in perfect condition . These roads often present 60 ON THE ROAD .
Page 68
... feel bound to come down to see them sail , and would remain with them on board the steamer until she was ready to go , and keep them in a state of constraint and bustling excitement all the time . But then , on the other hand , the ...
... feel bound to come down to see them sail , and would remain with them on board the steamer until she was ready to go , and keep them in a state of constraint and bustling excitement all the time . But then , on the other hand , the ...
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Page 6 - NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY. MDCCCXLH. V ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, BY D. APPLETON & COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Conrt of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
Page 35 - ... income serve for your own expenses, as (I fear) from the narrowness of my present prospects It will not be in my power to afford you assistance. I had flattered myself with the contrary persuasion, and this is one of my airy Castles, the destruction of which gives me the most pain and disappointment. I assure you, it is a great source of satisfaction to me to think, that at least you have a comfortable House, where you are secure from vulgar intrusion, and vulgar occurrences; and I cannot but...
Page 71 - M sat at a window which was hall raised to admit the breath of a balmy summer day, and she had a book in her hand which she had been reading aloud to three of her daughters, who were engaged in useful and ornamental work.
Page 108 - So my mother was convinced that he was a thief, and that he had come in to steal the money from the pockets of her dresses.
Page 39 - Give my love to the children, and believe me, as ever, " Your very affectionate friend,