The Queen's Shilling. A Soldier's StoryH.S. King, 1873 |
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... thought beyond their nets , and the herring season , and their clumsy fishing boats with tan - dried sails . On The town itself lay in the northern angle of the wide shallow bay , gathered up into a bunch at the foot of some crags ...
... thought beyond their nets , and the herring season , and their clumsy fishing boats with tan - dried sails . On The town itself lay in the northern angle of the wide shallow bay , gathered up into a bunch at the foot of some crags ...
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... thought at first sight of its turrets and battlements , its portcullis and loopholed walls , that you had come upon an old fashioned fortified stronghold of the middle ages . Yet from first to last Scaggleton Castle was a delusion and a ...
... thought at first sight of its turrets and battlements , its portcullis and loopholed walls , that you had come upon an old fashioned fortified stronghold of the middle ages . Yet from first to last Scaggleton Castle was a delusion and a ...
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... thought and action as they were elastic of step and pure in their young inexperienced hearts . It was a pity they could not be left to live on as they had grown up from infancy , un- contaminated by the world and its ways . It needed no ...
... thought and action as they were elastic of step and pure in their young inexperienced hearts . It was a pity they could not be left to live on as they had grown up from infancy , un- contaminated by the world and its ways . It needed no ...
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... thought- lessness . " Oh ! forgive me , mother - I- " then the impulsive child's eyes filled with tears , and there was a dead silence . Boys ! There was no longer a plural for the word in that house . The tale might be read in those ...
... thought- lessness . " Oh ! forgive me , mother - I- " then the impulsive child's eyes filled with tears , and there was a dead silence . Boys ! There was no longer a plural for the word in that house . The tale might be read in those ...
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... a woman might well be contented to see the reflection of her own ; eyes yet untrained , like his thoughts , to love . And there was something in his manner quite as winning as in his face : a ALURED FRERE TAKES THE SHILLING . 31.
... a woman might well be contented to see the reflection of her own ; eyes yet untrained , like his thoughts , to love . And there was something in his manner quite as winning as in his face : a ALURED FRERE TAKES THE SHILLING . 31.
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