The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, 2 tomas

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Harper & Brothers, 1835

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179 psl. - She had thrown on her cloak, but had nothing on her head, and her hair fell in its natural fair curls over her face and neck. Singular as it was for the delicate, timid Bessie to appear in this guise in the public street, or to appear there at all, and much as he was startled by her faded, stricken form, the truth did not at once occur to Meredith. The wildness of her eye was subdued in the dim twilight; she spoke in her accustomed quiet manner ; and after answering to his first inquiry that she...
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