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Page 15
... strange manner in which I sustained the loss of these papers . " On the evening of the day I had received them , I proceeded to keep an engagement I had made to sup with some young gallants on the side of the Seine opposite the Louvre ...
... strange manner in which I sustained the loss of these papers . " On the evening of the day I had received them , I proceeded to keep an engagement I had made to sup with some young gallants on the side of the Seine opposite the Louvre ...
Page 23
... strange circumstance in respect to the gipsies was , that they were not tempted by the reward offered to restore the child . On the other hand , it was supposed , had any one of them come forward for that purpose , the criminality of ...
... strange circumstance in respect to the gipsies was , that they were not tempted by the reward offered to restore the child . On the other hand , it was supposed , had any one of them come forward for that purpose , the criminality of ...
Page 32
... strange to him ; for the people , he thought , had quite privilege enough , in being allowed to do whatever was lawful , in which there was no sin ; and as for the prerogative ! God had given to kings , from the earliest times , the ...
... strange to him ; for the people , he thought , had quite privilege enough , in being allowed to do whatever was lawful , in which there was no sin ; and as for the prerogative ! God had given to kings , from the earliest times , the ...
Page 43
... strange and eccentric woman . Yet she was never so absolutely beside herself as to require anything like restraint . She might have fallen into a state of aberration but for the uncommon affection she felt for her daughter , who , I was ...
... strange and eccentric woman . Yet she was never so absolutely beside herself as to require anything like restraint . She might have fallen into a state of aberration but for the uncommon affection she felt for her daughter , who , I was ...
Page 55
... strange powers at her command , and that she did not always use them harmlessly or for good ends . All feared her , and some averred that , if she had not been known for an ancient dependant of my Lady Howard , she would long ago have ...
... strange powers at her command , and that she did not always use them harmlessly or for good ends . All feared her , and some averred that , if she had not been known for an ancient dependant of my Lady Howard , she would long ago have ...
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