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Updated: May 23, 2025

So much so, that when we passed the family group in memory of Mazzini, and Alessandro explained dramatically that "the daughter he sitta down and cryo because his father is a-dead," poppa said, "Is that so?" without the faintest show of excitement, and momma declined even to look round.

Sara Jeannette Duncan - A Voyage of Consolation: (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An: American girl in London')

I can carry her, but the child, Ad must come for her." "The what?" gasped Mrs. Worthington, who, terrified beyond measure at the mention of a-dead woman, was doubly so at hearing of a child. "A child," she repeated, "whose child?" Hugh, made no reply save an order that the lounge should be brought near the fire and a pillow from his mother's bed.

Mary Jane Holmes - Bad Hugh