The Child of Thirty-six Fathers: A Serious, Comic and Moral Romance, Volume 1Isaac Riley, 1809 - French fiction |
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Page 80
... happiness in possessing relations and friends so truly generous , we insen- sibly separated , admiring the beauties of the garden . Sans - Chagrin who , when once he formed the plan of a love affair , did not like to protract the ...
... happiness in possessing relations and friends so truly generous , we insen- sibly separated , admiring the beauties of the garden . Sans - Chagrin who , when once he formed the plan of a love affair , did not like to protract the ...
Page 83
... are -- my cousin has told me all --- and " from that moment inspired me with a " 6 very lively interest for your happiness . " So be you perfectly at rest on that score ; assured that your secret is in " good THIRTY - SIX FATHERS . 83.
... are -- my cousin has told me all --- and " from that moment inspired me with a " 6 very lively interest for your happiness . " So be you perfectly at rest on that score ; assured that your secret is in " good THIRTY - SIX FATHERS . 83.
Page 92
... happiness - to apply rather luckily in answering one of my rivals , drew upon me the attention of the company and the plaudits of the good Franville . Zelia , who was not at all backward to declare herself of her fa- ther's opinion ...
... happiness - to apply rather luckily in answering one of my rivals , drew upon me the attention of the company and the plaudits of the good Franville . Zelia , who was not at all backward to declare herself of her fa- ther's opinion ...
Page 93
... happiness and not mine that is at stake , " it is you who have a right to pronounce . Speak , then ... which do you prefer ? --- " Be your choice which it choice which it may , it cannot " fail to do us honour , and I subscribe to " it ...
... happiness and not mine that is at stake , " it is you who have a right to pronounce . Speak , then ... which do you prefer ? --- " Be your choice which it choice which it may , it cannot " fail to do us honour , and I subscribe to " it ...
Page 94
... happiness would be " secured by giving away my heart and my hand to any one of these gentlemen , " I beg that my refusal may not be attri- " buted to any want on my part of a due " sense of those gentlemen's merits , but " to the desire ...
... happiness would be " secured by giving away my heart and my hand to any one of these gentlemen , " I beg that my refusal may not be attri- " buted to any want on my part of a due " sense of those gentlemen's merits , but " to the desire ...
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