Peculiar: A Tale of the Great TransitionCarleton, 1864 - 500 páginas |
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... Your father was so much my senior , that you may well suppose I did not marry him from love . I was quite young . My notions on the sub- ject of matrimony were unformed . My heart was free 6 PECULIAR . A MATRIMONIAL BLANK 629.
... Your father was so much my senior , that you may well suppose I did not marry him from love . I was quite young . My notions on the sub- ject of matrimony were unformed . My heart was free 6 PECULIAR . A MATRIMONIAL BLANK 629.
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... heart was free . My father urged the step upon me as one that would save him from dire and absolute destitution . What could I do , after many misgivings , but yield ? What could I do ? I now well see what a woman of real moral strength ...
... heart was free . My father urged the step upon me as one that would save him from dire and absolute destitution . What could I do , after many misgivings , but yield ? What could I do ? I now well see what a woman of real moral strength ...
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... heart was overflowing with affection . What more shall I say , except to sum up all my love for you and all my grati- tude in the one parting prayer , Heaven bless you and yours ! EMILY CHARLTON . Your mother , * Having slept under ...
... heart was overflowing with affection . What more shall I say , except to sum up all my love for you and all my grati- tude in the one parting prayer , Heaven bless you and yours ! EMILY CHARLTON . Your mother , * Having slept under ...
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... heart , full of all loving possibili- ties , had steered by false lights and been wrecked . Brief had been its poor , shattered dream of household joys and domestic amenities ! It was the old , old story of the cheat and the dupe ; of ...
... heart , full of all loving possibili- ties , had steered by false lights and been wrecked . Brief had been its poor , shattered dream of household joys and domestic amenities ! It was the old , old story of the cheat and the dupe ; of ...
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... heart of a Thug . But Charlton did not even inquire if she were hurt . After a pause she seemed to recover her recollection , and then threw up her head with a lofty gesture of resolve , and quitted the room . Her husband sat down and ...
... heart of a Thug . But Charlton did not even inquire if she were hurt . After a pause she seemed to recover her recollection , and then threw up her head with a lofty gesture of resolve , and quitted the room . Her husband sat down and ...
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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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