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On this particular day her father, the vicar of a parish on the sea-swept outskirts of Lower Wessex, and a widower, was suffering from an attack of gout. After finishing her household supervision Elfride became restless, and several times left the room, ascended the staircase, and knocked at her father's chamber-door.
'Come in!' was always answered in a heart out-of-door voice from the inside.
'Papa,' she said on one occasion to the fine, red-faced, handsome man of forty, who, puffing and fizzin
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― A Pair of Blue Eyes
― A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
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― Mosses from an Old Manse
― Mosses from an Old Manse
