shilling. On that modest investment, I considered one pound three shillings a very fair sum to be e...
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Penelope's Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Wiggin To G.C.R. Contents. Part First--In Tow...
this," said Salemina, who had opened one of her large volumes at random when the train started. "'...
`Aweel! the day's just aboot the ord'nar', an' I wouldna won'er if we saw the sun afore nicht!' Bu...
"She was dreadful hard to get along with, and I used to hate her like poison," confessed Emma Jane;...
the eyebrows with learning for one thing,--useless kinds and all,--going to have good clothes, and ...
Penelope's English Experiences by Kate Douglas Wiggin To my Boston friend Salemina. No Anglomania...
This instantaneous assimilation of English customs does not seem to be affectation on Salemina's pa...
me of all my ideas, and gave me none in exchange. Anything so unspeakably heavy I never encountered...
of the duchess) to bring me with her. I started on this journey to the country with all possible de...
'London particular,' Mr. Guppy's phrase for a fog. When you are once ensconced in your garden seat ...
giving a 'small and early'; but it transpired that all the silver- sellers had called at the same h...
This theory being just as plausible as ours, we did not discuss it, hoping that something would hap...
opinion that his ludship would have it down as soon as he arrived. Our attention was now distracted...
bold as a brass kettle; I don't see how they come to be twins; they ain't a mite alike." "Elijah w...