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... Hercules Hawkingtrefylyan , Baronet . He was very poor and very proud , for baronets were not so common in those days . He was a very large man , standing six feet high , and with what is termed a considerable bow - window 2 POOR JACK .
... Hercules Hawkingtrefylyan , Baronet . He was very poor and very proud , for baronets were not so common in those days . He was a very large man , standing six feet high , and with what is termed a considerable bow - window 2 POOR JACK .
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... standing ; but at the same time Madam Araminta ( for so my mother insisted upon being called ) took good care to let my father understand that she considered that she was lowering herself by surrendering up her charms to a captain's ...
... standing ; but at the same time Madam Araminta ( for so my mother insisted upon being called ) took good care to let my father understand that she considered that she was lowering herself by surrendering up her charms to a captain's ...
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... stands , and watch the tide as it receded , and pick up anything I could find , such as bits of wood and oakum ; and I would wonder at the ships which lay in the stream , and the vessels sailing up and down . I would sometimes remain ...
... stands , and watch the tide as it receded , and pick up anything I could find , such as bits of wood and oakum ; and I would wonder at the ships which lay in the stream , and the vessels sailing up and down . I would sometimes remain ...
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... standing , I suppose you've had a rap or two at Mounseer . " " Xpect I have , " replied my father . chap , I'll just wet my whistle , and then I'll about it , —and it won't take long neither . were ordered away— " " Well , old tell you ...
... standing , I suppose you've had a rap or two at Mounseer . " " Xpect I have , " replied my father . chap , I'll just wet my whistle , and then I'll about it , —and it won't take long neither . were ordered away— " " Well , old tell you ...
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... standing over him , her teeth set , her fists clenched , and arms raised , with a dire expression of revenge in her countenance . I thought at the time that I never saw her look so ugly I may say , so horrid ; even now , her expression ...
... standing over him , her teeth set , her fists clenched , and arms raised , with a dire expression of revenge in her countenance . I thought at the time that I never saw her look so ugly I may say , so horrid ; even now , her expression ...
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