The Child of Thirty-six Fathers: A Serious, Comic and Moral Romance, Volume 1Isaac Riley, 1809 - French fiction |
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... attorney , who could not have been paired with a more perfect contrast than his handsome neigh- bour . He then started the game by ask ing the attorney if he was not an apothe- cary . The lawyer , who had not the least 52 THE CHILD OF.
... attorney , who could not have been paired with a more perfect contrast than his handsome neigh- bour . He then started the game by ask ing the attorney if he was not an apothe- cary . The lawyer , who had not the least 52 THE CHILD OF.
Page 53
... attorney , who in a tone of peevishness and anger , crabbedly exclaimed --- “ Ca- " thartic yourself ! --- cathartic indeed .--- " Know , Sir , that " ... A violent fit of laughter which burst at once from the young widow and the Gascon ...
... attorney , who in a tone of peevishness and anger , crabbedly exclaimed --- “ Ca- " thartic yourself ! --- cathartic indeed .--- " Know , Sir , that " ... A violent fit of laughter which burst at once from the young widow and the Gascon ...
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... attorney , and no less than a solicitor to the republic ; and that possibly we might be able to know what he was , if it should one day be his business to plead against us . Linval , who had hitherto been silent , and who , as well as ...
... attorney , and no less than a solicitor to the republic ; and that possibly we might be able to know what he was , if it should one day be his business to plead against us . Linval , who had hitherto been silent , and who , as well as ...
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... attorney --- " we of the law " are of another way of thinking . We ne- 66 ver draw any thing but the pen --- we have ( 6 no other arms and it is forbidden us 66 by the laws of the republic to have any 66 thing to do with assassins ...
... attorney --- " we of the law " are of another way of thinking . We ne- 66 ver draw any thing but the pen --- we have ( 6 no other arms and it is forbidden us 66 by the laws of the republic to have any 66 thing to do with assassins ...
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... attorney endeavoured to excuse him- self , but in vain ; the inexorable child of the Garonne stopt his mouth every mo- ment with a repetition of the words , " At " the inn , at the inn , we will settle every << thing . " The devotee who ...
... attorney endeavoured to excuse him- self , but in vain ; the inexorable child of the Garonne stopt his mouth every mo- ment with a repetition of the words , " At " the inn , at the inn , we will settle every << thing . " The devotee who ...
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