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... Poor creature , " said the good officer , patting my cheeks : " I will do something for thee . " " Isn't he a pretty boy ? " added the officer , turning to his companion . " He really is , " answered the other : " only it is a pity that ...
... Poor creature , " said the good officer , patting my cheeks : " I will do something for thee . " " Isn't he a pretty boy ? " added the officer , turning to his companion . " He really is , " answered the other : " only it is a pity that ...
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... Poor orphan , " said the officer ; " how he is harassed and fright- ened ; rise , my little friend : " added he ; " they will not whip you , but feed you with pies . " The word pies had a magic effect upon me . I rose , wiped off the ...
... Poor orphan , " said the officer ; " how he is harassed and fright- ened ; rise , my little friend : " added he ; " they will not whip you , but feed you with pies . " The word pies had a magic effect upon me . I rose , wiped off the ...
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... poor gentry with im- punity , and while he called them his brothers and equals , might flog them with rods , while they lay stretched out upon a carpet as a mark of distinction between them and the peasants ; and when he might lock them ...
... poor gentry with im- punity , and while he called them his brothers and equals , might flog them with rods , while they lay stretched out upon a carpet as a mark of distinction between them and the peasants ; and when he might lock them ...
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... poor gentry who thought to make up for their low call- ing by high - sounding titles . The household of Mr. Golo- gordoffsky was exactly such as , in days of yore , were those of the ancient feudal Barons and of the old Polish Pans ...
... poor gentry who thought to make up for their low call- ing by high - sounding titles . The household of Mr. Golo- gordoffsky was exactly such as , in days of yore , were those of the ancient feudal Barons and of the old Polish Pans ...
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... poor commissary ! His duty consisted in seeing that all the estate was in order , also in the chequ- ing of accompts , and the collecting of incomes ; but as every thing was in disorder , as the incomes were collected before they were ...
... poor commissary ! His duty consisted in seeing that all the estate was in order , also in the chequ- ing of accompts , and the collecting of incomes ; but as every thing was in disorder , as the incomes were collected before they were ...
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Page 192 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.