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... park in search of more congenial society . Thomasina had been altogether shut out from any recognised companionship with children , except when she was summoned to entertain some stray child who had come with a morning visitor . On such ...
... park in search of more congenial society . Thomasina had been altogether shut out from any recognised companionship with children , except when she was summoned to entertain some stray child who had come with a morning visitor . On such ...
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... park , and his family was large , and various enough in sex and age to afford Thomasina a choice of friends ; but it had been decreed by the higher powers that such an intimacy might be inconvenient in after life , and the children knew ...
... park , and his family was large , and various enough in sex and age to afford Thomasina a choice of friends ; but it had been decreed by the higher powers that such an intimacy might be inconvenient in after life , and the children knew ...
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... park . After Thomasina had once or twice encountered them , riding double on their forest pony , she began to consider such . encounter as the pleasantest incident which enlivened her solitary rambles . She timed her walks to suit the ...
... park . After Thomasina had once or twice encountered them , riding double on their forest pony , she began to consider such . encounter as the pleasantest incident which enlivened her solitary rambles . She timed her walks to suit the ...
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... park from the more open forest ground . There was something amiss with the fastening , which Thomasina failed to undo , and one of the boys sprang off the pony to help her . It is too stiff for you , ' he said , setting aside the little ...
... park from the more open forest ground . There was something amiss with the fastening , which Thomasina failed to undo , and one of the boys sprang off the pony to help her . It is too stiff for you , ' he said , setting aside the little ...
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... park , granny . as soon as I heard the bell . I came back How do you , Aunt Thomasina ? ' And she presented her cheek to be kissed , with the sedate decorum so often acquired by an only child . ' She is grown , is she not ? She was a ...
... park , granny . as soon as I heard the bell . I came back How do you , Aunt Thomasina ? ' And she presented her cheek to be kissed , with the sedate decorum so often acquired by an only child . ' She is grown , is she not ? She was a ...
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