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All we are asked to bear we can bear. - [Burdens] Sophie le Patourel was reading aloud to her two daughters from the Book of Ruth, as they lay upon their backboards digesting their dinners and improving their deportment. This spending of the after-dinner hour upon their backboards instead of in the parlor was as a matter of fact a punishment for insubordination during the morning; but their Papa being home, Sophie was softening the punishment by reading aloud. - Green Dolphin Street (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The sun shining through the uncurtained east window woke Sally to a new day. - Pilgrim's Inn (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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