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London, Chapman & Hall Ltd, n.d. [1910]
8vo 244pp
24 colour plates

The British Library shows [1911], but references in various periodicals and the Sunderland Public Library Circular published at the time indicate late 1910.

Dustwrapper fragments from the Copp Clark Canadian edition.

 


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1. How reverend is the view of these hushed heads.

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2. Ye mild and happy pair.

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3. In Christ Church Reverend Quadrangle.

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4. There was love for the bringer.

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5. Moonlight itself, with its shadowy and spectral appearances.

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6. A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

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7. Bridget and I should be ever playing.

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8. Thrumming on my friend A's piano.

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9. Every Quakeress is a lily.

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10. He is boy-rid, sick of perpetual boy.

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11. I ventured to ask him how he liked my beauty.

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12. What a terrible shaking it is to their poor nerves!

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13. He saw, unseen, the happy girl.

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14. Dropping them into a china basin of fair water.

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15. A creature that might have sat to a sculptor.

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16. I remember the waiting at the door.

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17. Inquiring of him the way to some street.

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18. The most elegant spot in the metropolis.

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19. The old benchers had it almost sacred to themselves.

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20. The soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes.

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21. "The King"—"The cloth".

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22. A lost chimney sweeper.

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23. Those old blind tobits.

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24. When I consider how little of a rarity children are—.


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