The cottage in the wood1825 - 120 pages |
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... path that led from the adjoining village , stopping at intervals to admire the sur- rounding scenery . The lake - it was the Lake of Lucern - lay stretched in unruffled placidity before us . Not a breath agitated its surface ; not a ...
... path that led from the adjoining village , stopping at intervals to admire the sur- rounding scenery . The lake - it was the Lake of Lucern - lay stretched in unruffled placidity before us . Not a breath agitated its surface ; not a ...
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... path conducted , " yonder , peeping through the trees in the distance , is the cottage in the wood . " Involuntarily and simultaneously , we stopped to con- template its seclusion - dear to my com- panion , and for his sake only a ...
... path conducted , " yonder , peeping through the trees in the distance , is the cottage in the wood . " Involuntarily and simultaneously , we stopped to con- template its seclusion - dear to my com- panion , and for his sake only a ...
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... path , " continued my friend , " for I was then glad to choose a more gentle acclivity having been much re- duced by illness , lay along the slope of that projecting crag , which meets your eye towards the higher borders of the lake ...
... path , " continued my friend , " for I was then glad to choose a more gentle acclivity having been much re- duced by illness , lay along the slope of that projecting crag , which meets your eye towards the higher borders of the lake ...
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... of Switzerland from foreign yoke . The story of his sentencing TELL to shoot an apple off his son's head for some trivial offence , is well known . path was rather intricate , I had received such particular THE COTTAGE IN THE WOOD . 11.
... of Switzerland from foreign yoke . The story of his sentencing TELL to shoot an apple off his son's head for some trivial offence , is well known . path was rather intricate , I had received such particular THE COTTAGE IN THE WOOD . 11.
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Cottage. path was rather intricate , I had received such particular instructions , that , keep- ing its general position in recollection I did not doubt but I should find , with- out difficulty , the abode of my venerable friends ...
Cottage. path was rather intricate , I had received such particular instructions , that , keep- ing its general position in recollection I did not doubt but I should find , with- out difficulty , the abode of my venerable friends ...
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