A Young Girl's WooingDodd, Mead, 1884 - 482 pages This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. |
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Page 13
... knew not what to do . She was but a young and inexperienced girl , and for a year or more had been regarded as an invalid . Madge Alden was an orphan . Four years prior to the opening of our story she had lost her mother , her surviving ...
... knew not what to do . She was but a young and inexperienced girl , and for a year or more had been regarded as an invalid . Madge Alden was an orphan . Four years prior to the opening of our story she had lost her mother , her surviving ...
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... knew that the handsome young fellow was not secretly laughing at or criticising her , and before dinner was over she had ventured upon a shy , grateful glance , in reward for his good - humored efforts to break the ice . There had , in ...
... knew that the handsome young fellow was not secretly laughing at or criticising her , and before dinner was over she had ventured upon a shy , grateful glance , in reward for his good - humored efforts to break the ice . There had , in ...
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... knew she was happy . Apart from her fondness for the unreal scenes pre- sented by the miscellaneous books she read , -scenes all the more unreal because she had no experience by which to correct them , —she had one other taste which ...
... knew she was happy . Apart from her fondness for the unreal scenes pre- sented by the miscellaneous books she read , -scenes all the more unreal because she had no experience by which to correct them , —she had one other taste which ...
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... knew the conventional status of every one they met as accurately as his brother recognized the commercial value of the securities that passed under his eye , and Madge's estimates often seemed absurd to the last degree . Whenever she ...
... knew the conventional status of every one they met as accurately as his brother recognized the commercial value of the securities that passed under his eye , and Madge's estimates often seemed absurd to the last degree . Whenever she ...
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... knew . She did not dare to think . Indeed , the effort was scarcely possible , for her mind was at first in tumult , with only one thing clear , a poignant sense of loss and trouble . Graydon was a long time away , longer than he had ...
... knew . She did not dare to think . Indeed , the effort was scarcely possible , for her mind was at first in tumult , with only one thing clear , a poignant sense of loss and trouble . Graydon was a long time away , longer than he had ...
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