The Child of Thirty-six Fathers: A Serious, Comic and Moral Romance, Volume 1Isaac Riley, 1809 - French fiction |
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... meet with a favourable re- ception from the public , the hero will have to divide his acknowledgments between the real author of his being and his father by adoption . The one is satisfied with having given him birth ; the other has ...
... meet with a favourable re- ception from the public , the hero will have to divide his acknowledgments between the real author of his being and his father by adoption . The one is satisfied with having given him birth ; the other has ...
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... meet with the person on whom I might without apprehension bestow that endear- ing title , I rigidly scrutinized the figures of those who most frequently visited my mother ; but not perceiving in any one of them , the least indication of ...
... meet with the person on whom I might without apprehension bestow that endear- ing title , I rigidly scrutinized the figures of those who most frequently visited my mother ; but not perceiving in any one of them , the least indication of ...
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... meet again . " 66 66 Y Delighted with receiving this frank and generous reception from my uncle , and disgusted with the unkind conduct of my father , I hastened to my cousin Belfort . He received me with so much the more pleasure , 40 ...
... meet again . " 66 66 Y Delighted with receiving this frank and generous reception from my uncle , and disgusted with the unkind conduct of my father , I hastened to my cousin Belfort . He received me with so much the more pleasure , 40 ...
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... whether I would acknowledge her jurisdiction . The peremptory though modest air with which she spoke this , made so lively an im- pression upon all my feelings , that I se- cretly vowed to myself to meet her ad- vances . 42 THE CHILD OF.
... whether I would acknowledge her jurisdiction . The peremptory though modest air with which she spoke this , made so lively an im- pression upon all my feelings , that I se- cretly vowed to myself to meet her ad- vances . 42 THE CHILD OF.
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A Serious, Comic and Moral Romance. cretly vowed to myself to meet her ad- vances . This little internal monologue did not escape her observation , and she knew so well how to take advantage of it , that on returning home at night , I ...
A Serious, Comic and Moral Romance. cretly vowed to myself to meet her ad- vances . This little internal monologue did not escape her observation , and she knew so well how to take advantage of it , that on returning home at night , I ...
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