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Stories for the household (1889)

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 421

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flame. She came down to the stream, and set thelamp upon the water, and let it float away. The flame flickered to andfro, and seemed ready to expire; but still the lamp burned on, and the 398 Stones for the Household. girls black sparkling eyes, half veiled behind their long silken lashes,followed… … TUB INDIAN GIRL. was dead. And the lamp burned bravely on, and she fell on her knees,and prayed. Near her in the grass lay a speckled snake, but she heededit not—she thought only of Brarnah and of her betrothed. He lives!she shouted joyfully, he lives! And from the mountains the echocame back upon…

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