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... for the tremendous rush of emotion that overwhelmed him when the dean opened his clear - cut lips and said , with the pathos the words demanded , “ We took sweet counsel together , and walked in the house of God as friends .
... for the tremendous rush of emotion that overwhelmed him when the dean opened his clear - cut lips and said , with the pathos the words demanded , “ We took sweet counsel together , and walked in the house of God as friends .
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| Title | The Silence of Dean Maitland: A Novel, Volume 1 Volume 2455 of Collection of British and American Authors Volume 2455 of Collection of British authors Volume 2455 of Tauchnitz edition |
| Author | Maxwell Gray |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, 1887 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 372 pages |
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