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... leave , he had vegetated in garrison towns , tied down to routine , mastering the geography of barrack buildings , the substance of vague local orders , and the details of a volu- minous correspondence . His world had been the narrow ...
... leave , he had vegetated in garrison towns , tied down to routine , mastering the geography of barrack buildings , the substance of vague local orders , and the details of a volu- minous correspondence . His world had been the narrow ...
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... leave , Alured was long before he could screw up his courage to ask if he could go to King's Lilies . Frere was so much to be depended upon , that his chief rarely allowed him to be absent . Somebody must be upon the spot always ; and ...
... leave , Alured was long before he could screw up his courage to ask if he could go to King's Lilies . Frere was so much to be depended upon , that his chief rarely allowed him to be absent . Somebody must be upon the spot always ; and ...
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... Leave your address with the clerk . " Alured was only too glad to escape at any price . The colonel and he were antipathetic ; and it was strange that they had not fallen out long before this . Gaynor was a middle aged beau . He did not ...
... Leave your address with the clerk . " Alured was only too glad to escape at any price . The colonel and he were antipathetic ; and it was strange that they had not fallen out long before this . Gaynor was a middle aged beau . He did not ...
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... leaves , and bearing in its bosom the fragrance it gathered as it came- sighing past beds of crocus and cowslip , or lingering upon sweet fields of new - mown hay . Out here upon the lawn Alured had leisure to observe his companions ...
... leaves , and bearing in its bosom the fragrance it gathered as it came- sighing past beds of crocus and cowslip , or lingering upon sweet fields of new - mown hay . Out here upon the lawn Alured had leisure to observe his companions ...
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... leaving his ball the wrong side of the hoop . " It's against all science . " " But I know nothing about the game , duchess . " " Don't you ? Fancy . Well I must teach you . What a pity to - morrow's Sunday . " " We might have a game by ...
... leaving his ball the wrong side of the hoop . " It's against all science . " " But I know nothing about the game , duchess . " " Don't you ? Fancy . Well I must teach you . What a pity to - morrow's Sunday . " " We might have a game by ...
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