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Page 6
... speak with her , but slunk out of the kit- chen . Masha followed me , and when I gave her an ac- count of my embassy ... speaking , scraped me , put clean linen upon me , and some sort of a coat , and then led me into the apart- ments ...
... speak with her , but slunk out of the kit- chen . Masha followed me , and when I gave her an ac- count of my embassy ... speaking , scraped me , put clean linen upon me , and some sort of a coat , and then led me into the apart- ments ...
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... speaking , made a summary of the incomes , copied it out on a sheet of clean paper , and presented it to the squire , with the N.B. that they had been previously collected ( although not in full ) in the course of the year : this highly ...
... speaking , made a summary of the incomes , copied it out on a sheet of clean paper , and presented it to the squire , with the N.B. that they had been previously collected ( although not in full ) in the course of the year : this highly ...
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... speaking , dram - drinking , as the ladies ate but little , and the gentlemen drank more than they ate . Spirits of different colours and tastes * were unceasingly circulated , till the decanters were emptied . Then the gentlemen walk ...
... speaking , dram - drinking , as the ladies ate but little , and the gentlemen drank more than they ate . Spirits of different colours and tastes * were unceasingly circulated , till the decanters were emptied . Then the gentlemen walk ...
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... speaking generally all at once . At last , when this noisy council was at an end , the tacksman drove out without ceremony the peasants from the kartchma , saying that the room was wanted to lay beds for his guests . To the discontended ...
... speaking generally all at once . At last , when this noisy council was at an end , the tacksman drove out without ceremony the peasants from the kartchma , saying that the room was wanted to lay beds for his guests . To the discontended ...
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... speak with this Jew , Moses ordered me to turn the horse and follow the carts . After proceeding on the way back about two versts , at a turn of the road , we met with a file of Cossacks belonging to the frontiers , along with whom was ...
... speak with this Jew , Moses ordered me to turn the horse and follow the carts . After proceeding on the way back about two versts , at a turn of the road , we met with a file of Cossacks belonging to the frontiers , along with whom was ...
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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.