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| Heart-smitten at this bewildering and baffling spell, that so often came between herself and her sole treasure, whom she had bought so dear, and who was all her world. Hester sometimes burst into tear | |
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| At home, within and around her mother's cottage, Pearl wanted not a wide and various circle of acquaintance. The spell of life went forth from her ever creative spirit | |
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| full of concern, therefore - but so consious of her own right, that it seemed scarcely an unequal match between the public, on the one side,and a lonely women, backed by the sympathies of nature | |
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