Peculiar: A Tale of the Great TransitionCarleton, 1864 - 500 páginas |
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... hard scratching managed to pay the taxes on it . In ten years the city had crept up so near to his dirty acres that he sold half of them for a hundred thousand dollars , and became all at once a rich man A GLANCE IN THE MIRROR . 3.
... hard scratching managed to pay the taxes on it . In ten years the city had crept up so near to his dirty acres that he sold half of them for a hundred thousand dollars , and became all at once a rich man A GLANCE IN THE MIRROR . 3.
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A Tale of the Great Transition Epes Sargent. dollars , and became all at once a rich man . Meanwhile his wife's mother , Mrs. Danby , after remaining fourteen years a widow , showed the inconsistency of her opposition to her daughter's ...
A Tale of the Great Transition Epes Sargent. dollars , and became all at once a rich man . Meanwhile his wife's mother , Mrs. Danby , after remaining fourteen years a widow , showed the inconsistency of her opposition to her daughter's ...
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... dollars on the wedding - day . He forthwith re- lieved himself of fifteen hundred in the purchase of a " new patent - spring phaeton " and span . " A great bargain , sir ; splendid creatures ; spirited , but gentle ; a woman can drive ...
... dollars on the wedding - day . He forthwith re- lieved himself of fifteen hundred in the purchase of a " new patent - spring phaeton " and span . " A great bargain , sir ; splendid creatures ; spirited , but gentle ; a woman can drive ...
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... dollars a month . What coals of fire it heaped on my head ! To please Mr. Charlton I had quarrelled with you , forbidden you to visit or write me , - and here was your return ! The communication coming close upon the dropping of my hus ...
... dollars a month . What coals of fire it heaped on my head ! To please Mr. Charlton I had quarrelled with you , forbidden you to visit or write me , - and here was your return ! The communication coming close upon the dropping of my hus ...
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... dollars in concert tickets , he indignantly repudi- ated music , and shut his ears even to the hand - organs in the He had inherited a fondness for fine horses . Before he was twenty - five he would not have driven out after Ethan Allen ...
... dollars in concert tickets , he indignantly repudi- ated music , and shut his ears even to the hand - organs in the He had inherited a fondness for fine horses . Before he was twenty - five he would not have driven out after Ethan Allen ...
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Abolitionism Abolitionist arms Artful Dodger asked Aylesford barouche beautiful believe Berwick Berwick family Blake called Captain carriage Charles Charlton child Clara Colonel Delancy Hyde Colonel Hyde colored cried cui bono damned Yankee dear door dress drew Esha Estelle exclaimed eyes face father gentleman Gentry girl give hair hand heard heart hour hunderd hundred dollars Josephine Kenrick kiss Kunnle Laura letter look Madame Volney Maloney Massa minutes mother mulatto negro never nigger Number once Onslow Orleans passed Pat Maloney Peek Perdita person pocket Pompilard Pontiac poor quadroon Quattles Ratcliff replied returned Ripper Robson seemed Semmes slave slavery soon Street suddenly tell thar there's thought thousand dollars tion told took Toussaint Vance walked wife Wigman window Winslow woman words wounded Yankee
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