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... papa on entering , and again this morning treated him with the same republican familiarity . The hotel is very quiet , and not a specimen of the large kind , which we intend seeing later . We had fortunately secured rooms beforehand ...
... papa on entering , and again this morning treated him with the same republican familiarity . The hotel is very quiet , and not a specimen of the large kind , which we intend seeing later . We had fortunately secured rooms beforehand ...
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... papa's , at a little cottage close to the hotel . Mr. and Mrs. Osborn and their two children had passed some weeks there , and said they frequently thus received over- flowings from the hotel , and but for their hospitality on this ...
... papa's , at a little cottage close to the hotel . Mr. and Mrs. Osborn and their two children had passed some weeks there , and said they frequently thus received over- flowings from the hotel , and but for their hospitality on this ...
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... papa was in one of his fidgetty states , which he could only relieve by exercise . But how now to describe Newport ? Papa is looking out of the window , and facing it is an avenue of trees running between two lawns of grass as green as ...
... papa was in one of his fidgetty states , which he could only relieve by exercise . But how now to describe Newport ? Papa is looking out of the window , and facing it is an avenue of trees running between two lawns of grass as green as ...
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... papa and as black as his hat . A black thumb on your plate , as he hands it to you , is not pleasant . The housemaids are also niggeresses , and usually go about in coloured cotton sun bonnets . I now leave off , as we start for Boston ...
... papa and as black as his hat . A black thumb on your plate , as he hands it to you , is not pleasant . The housemaids are also niggeresses , and usually go about in coloured cotton sun bonnets . I now leave off , as we start for Boston ...
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... papa is often in when in dear old England . Then when you ask for information on any subject , the answer is fre- quently , " I can't say , sir , for I am not posted up on that subject . " I asked an American gentleman , who was walking ...
... papa is often in when in dear old England . Then when you ask for information on any subject , the answer is fre- quently , " I can't say , sir , for I am not posted up on that subject . " I asked an American gentleman , who was walking ...
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