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that may be entailed by the spirit that says "Don’t care" to every
gentle correction of a fault.
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Miss Coleridge’s "Reuben Everett" is the story of "a truant bird, that
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colleges and railways in England.
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Of the rising in La Vendee during the great French Revolution, and of
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at the time.
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Miss Debenham’s story is concerned with Scotland in the stormy days of
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on all around her is Bride Galbraith, who, by her tenderness and grace,
comforts and softens the time of trial and affliction.
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