Oriole's daughter, a novel, Volume 3 (of 3)Fothergill, Jessie
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Oriole's daughter, a novel, Volume 3 (of 3)
Fothergill, Jessie
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Illegitimate children -- Fiction; Married women -- Fiction; Rome (Italy) -- Fiction
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PIERRE AND JEAN. From the French of Guy de Maupassant.
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WORK WHILE YE HAVE THE LIGHT. From the Russian of Count Lyof
Tolstoy.
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FOOTSTEPS OF FATE. From the Dutch of Louis Couperus.
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PEPITA JIMÉNEZ. From the Spanish of Juan Valera.
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