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... Massa Will . " It is not improbable that the relatives of Legrand , conceiving him to be somewhat unsettled in intellect , had contrived to instil this obstinacy into Jupiter , with a view to the super- vision and guardianship of the ...
... Massa Will . " It is not improbable that the relatives of Legrand , conceiving him to be somewhat unsettled in intellect , had contrived to instil this obstinacy into Jupiter , with a view to the super- vision and guardianship of the ...
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... Massa Will , I keep a - telling on you , " here interrupted Jupiter ; " de bug is a goole- bug , solid , ebery bit of him , inside and all , sep him wing - neber feel half so hebby a bug in my life . " " Well , suppose it is , Jup ...
... Massa Will , I keep a - telling on you , " here interrupted Jupiter ; " de bug is a goole- bug , solid , ebery bit of him , inside and all , sep him wing - neber feel half so hebby a bug in my life . " " Well , suppose it is , Jup ...
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... Massa Will . ” " Jupiter , I should like to understand what it is you are talking about . You say your master is sick . Hasn't he told you what ails him ? " matter - ― " Why , massa , taint worf while for to git mad about de Massa Will ...
... Massa Will . ” " Jupiter , I should like to understand what it is you are talking about . You say your master is sick . Hasn't he told you what ails him ? " matter - ― " Why , massa , taint worf while for to git mad about de Massa Will ...
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... massa , dey aint bin noffin onpleasant since den ' twas fore den I'm feared ' twas de berry day you was dare . " " How ? what do you mean ? " 66 Why , massa , I mean de bug — dare now . " " The what ? " ― " De bug - I'm berry sartain that ...
... massa , dey aint bin noffin onpleasant since den ' twas fore den I'm feared ' twas de berry day you was dare . " " How ? what do you mean ? " 66 Why , massa , I mean de bug — dare now . " " The what ? " ― " De bug - I'm berry sartain that ...
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" What de matter , massa ? " " Did you bring any message from Mr. Legrand ? 99 " No , massa , I bring dis here pissel ; " and here Jupiter handed me a note which ran thus : - " MY DEAR Why have I not seen you for so long a time ? I hope ...
" What de matter , massa ? " " Did you bring any message from Mr. Legrand ? 99 " No , massa , I bring dis here pissel ; " and here Jupiter handed me a note which ran thus : - " MY DEAR Why have I not seen you for so long a time ? I hope ...
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الصفحة 13 - ... roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed — "My very dog...
الصفحة 233 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
الصفحة 18 - Rip Van Winkle now! Does nobody know poor Rip Van Winkle?" All stood amazed, until an old woman, tottering out from among the crowd, put her hand to her brow, and peering under it in his face for a moment, exclaimed, "Sure enough it is Rip Van Winkle — it is himself! Welcome home again, old neighbour — Why, where have you been these twenty long years?
الصفحة 13 - It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay, the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half -starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it.
الصفحة 78 - I wouldn't mind giving my individual check for fifty thousand francs to any one who could obtain me that letter. The fact is, it is becoming of more and more importance every day; and the reward has been lately doubled. If it were trebled, however, I could do no more than I have done...
الصفحة 190 - ... listening to the man's last words: and when I looked into that face, which had been set as a flint against mercy, I found it smiling with hope." "And do you, then, suppose me such a creature?
الصفحة 16 - Nicholas Vedder?" There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder? why he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
الصفحة xii - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events that may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
الصفحة 71 - And what, after all, is the matter on hand?" I asked. "Why, I will tell you," replied the Prefect, as he gave a long, steady, and contemplative puff, and settled himself in his chair. "I will tell you...
الصفحة 112 - He had devoted himself, however, too unreservedly to scientific studies ever to be weaned from them by any second passion. His love for his young wife might prove the stronger of the two; but it could only be by intertwining itself with his love of science, and uniting the strength of the latter to his own.