The Child of Thirty-six Fathers: A Serious, Comic and Moral Romance, Volume 1Isaac Riley, 1809 - French fiction |
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... passed at the foot of the farm . She replied it was the road from Paris to Montpellier ; and that though it was shorter and more beautiful than that which passed by the village we had come through , ( where the horsemen appeared to us ...
... passed at the foot of the farm . She replied it was the road from Paris to Montpellier ; and that though it was shorter and more beautiful than that which passed by the village we had come through , ( where the horsemen appeared to us ...
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... passed through that , to take the road to the right , by which we might go in a right line , so as with great ease to rest at Mont- pellier . We thanked the honest man for his information , and after having taken leave of the worthy ...
... passed through that , to take the road to the right , by which we might go in a right line , so as with great ease to rest at Mont- pellier . We thanked the honest man for his information , and after having taken leave of the worthy ...
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... to make our observations on the different places that we passed . Thus jogging onward , it was about three hours after having left our inn that we discovered a village at a distance of little more than a quarter CHAPTER III. ...
... to make our observations on the different places that we passed . Thus jogging onward , it was about three hours after having left our inn that we discovered a village at a distance of little more than a quarter CHAPTER III. ...
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... passed the guard .-- . " The first centinel , who had not been " able to stop me , called out to the second " to do it ; but I did not allow him time , " for I took him by the middle and flung 66 him , all armed as he was , underneath ...
... passed the guard .-- . " The first centinel , who had not been " able to stop me , called out to the second " to do it ; but I did not allow him time , " for I took him by the middle and flung 66 him , all armed as he was , underneath ...
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... to occasional apprehensions that he had met with some misadventure , which I was sorry I was not along with him to take my share in . Sans - Chagrin , who read in my eyes every thing that passed in my heart , THIRTY - SIX FATHERS . 31.
... to occasional apprehensions that he had met with some misadventure , which I was sorry I was not along with him to take my share in . Sans - Chagrin , who read in my eyes every thing that passed in my heart , THIRTY - SIX FATHERS . 31.
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