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The story of a short life (1887)

Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885, Browne, Gordon · London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, New York, E & J.B. Young · leaf 12

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e betwixt finger and thumb. Put your hands down, Leonard ! Put your tongue in, sir ! Whatare you after ? What do you want ? What are you doing here ? Beoff to the nursery, and tell Jemima to keep you there. Your motherand I are busy. Far behind the boy, on the wall, hung the portrait of one of… … 0 DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI. and uninjured by Time. The young Cavaliers face was more interest-ing than handsome, but so eager and refined that, set off as it was bypule-hued satin and falling hair, he might have been called effeminate, ifhis brief life, which ended on the field of…

Children's stories, English

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