Now the Three Mariners was the inn chosen by Henchard as the place for closing his long term of dramless years. He had so timed his entry as to be […]
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The quiet time of evening, the secluded neighbourhood, the unusually gorgeous liveries of the clouds packed in a pile over that quarter of the heavens in which the sun had
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Old Andrey’s Experience as a Musician ‘I was one of the choir-boys at that time, and we and the players were to appear at the manor-house as usual that Christmas
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(Relates to the introduction of new barrel organ) Biddenden people were not quite content with their choir and orchestra. There was nothing to be said against either, as far as
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Absent-mindedness in a Parish Church It happened on Sunday after Christmas – the last Sunday they played in Longpuddle church gallery, as it turned out, thought they didn’t know it
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Chapter One – The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton. (The mythical village of Shepperton is thought to be Chilvers Coton, in Warwickshire, where George Eliot grew up.) And
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They shamble in one after another, with steaming breath, for it is winter, and loud clattering of hobnailed boots; they beat the snow from off them as they enter, and
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Royston, Cambridgeshire and neighbourhood
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