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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886 [1859], Out at elbows: gifts of genius. (C. A. Davenport, New York) [word count] [eaf509T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
I have just been discarded by Annie. Let me endeavor to collect my thoughts and I told her that I loved her—had loved her for
“I cannot marry you, Mr. Cleave.” A long pause followed, in which she evidently “I will frankly and faithfully say why I cannot. There she stopped, blushing and trembling. “Why did I not? Oh! do not stop there, I pray She replied to my words in a broken and agitated “I cannot finish. I was thinking of—of—the And a smile broke through the tears in her eyes, What shall I do? I cannot live without her.
— Ah! that may! Let me try it. Oh, fortunate
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886 [1859], Out at elbows: gifts of genius. (C. A. Davenport, New York) [word count] [eaf509T]. |