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Page 85 - I after a while prayed her to come to bed ; so, after an hour or two, she silent, and I now and then praying her to come to bed, she fell out into a fury, that I was a rogue, and false to her.
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| Title | Clumber Chase, or Love's riddle solved by a royal sphinx, Volume 1 Clumber Chase, or Love's riddle solved by a royal sphinx, George Gordon Scott Volume 1 of Clumber chase, or Love's riddle solved by a royal sphinx. A tale of the restoration, George Gordon Scott |
| Author | George Gordon Scott |
| Published | 1871 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 20 Jul 2006 |
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