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from the woods the voices of children.
An’ the children ’ad the right to be ’ere.’
when Uncle Ambrose commanded everyone always obeyed.
Ezra, take the children home. Confusion is at present great, but undoubtedly it is a happy hour.’
It represented a magnificent peregrine falcon with a creamy speckled breast, night-dark wings, and curved scimitar beak.
the hand that held him up into the sunshine was gloved in scarlet.
’Angin’ up that falcon was ’er sign to us that she knows she’s beaten.
The marvellous light was now so brilliant that they all turned gold while they did it.
Question
bless the day that brought these troublesome varmints to live at the Vicarage.
The Children!
Lady Alicia and her son Francis Valerian
the milkman,
Moses and Abednego and Gertrude
Men came running from the fields and the women from their wash-tubs.
Lady Alicia, in a beautiful lavender silk dress and a bonnet trimmed with violets, looked no longer old, but merely elderly.
Haha
Simile - comparison it’s an imaginary artifact.
she forgave Emma all her wickedness from the bottom of her heart.
High Barton;
Emma and Tom did not go away and they became quite nice old people.
Their change of heart was astonishing at their age and the villagers were at a loss to explain it.
they did not know about Ezra’s good spells or the labour of the bees.
Least of all did they know how Lady Alicia had forgiven Emma from the bottom of her heart.
Francis still kept his home in the Lion Rock.
Aren’t there any other village children? Question
Simile - triple option
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Sinile
they knew it was an occasion that called for the unobtrusive steadying influence of their marvellous equine sympathy.
she had longed for him and she was a strong elderly lady, and the air of the high moors is invigorating,
she not only survived but became younger and happier than ever.
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‘The boys must eventually go to boarding school. Possibly Oxford or Cambridge later.’
And the girls? Haha
‘Certainly,’ said Uncle Ambrose sternly. ‘Why do you suppose I am wasting valuable time and strength hammering knowledge into their wooden heads?’
your total lack of talent will give great pleasure.
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young blockheads.
In my youth I had me good fortune to escape matrimony.
Haha I’d like to hear *that* story
Having never been under any obligation to waste good money on feather bonnets, woolly boots, rattles, and so forth,
These children are the most troublesome I have ever encountered and you yourself as stubborn, unintelligent, and reactionary as any soldier I have ever had the misfortune to meet,
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‘Only requiring for its ultimate perfection that we partake of some soothing digestive mixture in order that future memory, as well as past participation, may be equally happy.
he was never quite sure about the inwardness of Emma’s and Frederick’s virtue.
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all right for soap, but not to be relied upon for bacon.
Ezra, coming to the conclusion that he could set a good example to the children just as well by moderation as by total abstinence,
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because they were the two youngest, Francis Valerian and Nan would go adventuring alone
Uncle Ambrose married them, blowing his nose a good deal while he did it, and the bells pealed and all the animals were allowed to come into church.
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Hector and the bees came too.
Betsy grew up and married the Vicar of Pizzleton,
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Robert gave her Rob-Roy, who never grew old,
Nan only had two children, beautiful lion-hearted Valerian boys,
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Colonel Linnet
Robert
to his father’s delight and Uncle Ambrose’s great annoyance, he went into the army.
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