New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 98Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1853 |
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... VEREKER . THE SEQUEL TO " Two PHASES IN THE LIFE of an ONLY CHILD . " BY THE AUTHOR OF “ THE UNHOLY WISH " MOBILE . PENSACOLA AND THE FLORIDAS . COTTON BARque to Cape Cod , ALONG THE GULF STREAM . BY J. W. HENGISTON , ESQ . LITERARY ...
... VEREKER . THE SEQUEL TO " Two PHASES IN THE LIFE of an ONLY CHILD . " BY THE AUTHOR OF “ THE UNHOLY WISH " MOBILE . PENSACOLA AND THE FLORIDAS . COTTON BARque to Cape Cod , ALONG THE GULF STREAM . BY J. W. HENGISTON , ESQ . LITERARY ...
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... Vereker . She was gaily dressed in white , with a blue sash tied round her waist , its long ends fluttering with her restless movements ; and her straw hat hung dangling from her arm by its blue ribbons , for she had raced out of doors ...
... Vereker . She was gaily dressed in white , with a blue sash tied round her waist , its long ends fluttering with her restless movements ; and her straw hat hung dangling from her arm by its blue ribbons , for she had raced out of doors ...
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... Vereker survived the " pain- ful period of dentition , " as the soothing syrup advertisements express it , was a mystery . Mr. Vereker was in a state of nervousness from its commencement to its close ; his wife never quitted the nursery ...
... Vereker survived the " pain- ful period of dentition , " as the soothing syrup advertisements express it , was a mystery . Mr. Vereker was in a state of nervousness from its commencement to its close ; his wife never quitted the nursery ...
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... Vereker was to enjoy the interest of the whole . Was there wisdom in this will - as regarded the child's temporal happiness ? Mr. Vereker no doubt thought so . An only child of a widowed mother ! and she long past her meridian of life ...
... Vereker was to enjoy the interest of the whole . Was there wisdom in this will - as regarded the child's temporal happiness ? Mr. Vereker no doubt thought so . An only child of a widowed mother ! and she long past her meridian of life ...
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... Vereker started on her walk with her governess . She was really like a bird , happy and light and joyous as one . Now singing a scrap of a song ; now flying after a butterfly - one of the first of the year ; now plucking a hedge flower ...
... Vereker started on her walk with her governess . She was really like a bird , happy and light and joyous as one . Now singing a scrap of a song ; now flying after a butterfly - one of the first of the year ; now plucking a hedge flower ...
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