Jacqueline, a story of the Reformation in HollandNimmo, 1872 - 201 pages Set in the Netherlands during Reformation times, this story follows the checkered love lives of a young armourer and a high-born Roman Catholic girl who is liberated from seclusion in a convent. |
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... girl still almost a child . The orphan daughter of a heretic nobleman who had expiated on the scaffold the crime of daring to think for himself on religious matters , Jacqueline St. Esprée , who was connected through her mother with ...
... girl still almost a child . The orphan daughter of a heretic nobleman who had expiated on the scaffold the crime of daring to think for himself on religious matters , Jacqueline St. Esprée , who was connected through her mother with ...
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... girl by stealth , to weave long tales to please her childish imagination , to lend herself slavishly to all her childish caprices , were the stolen , she almost feared the guilty , pleasures of her life , which became more oppressive to ...
... girl by stealth , to weave long tales to please her childish imagination , to lend herself slavishly to all her childish caprices , were the stolen , she almost feared the guilty , pleasures of her life , which became more oppressive to ...
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... girl like you cannot understand with what a feeling I shrink from even recalling them in thought . ' ' I do understand it , dear , ' answers the girl , putting her strong , young , protecting arm round the frail shrinking form ; ' I ...
... girl like you cannot understand with what a feeling I shrink from even recalling them in thought . ' ' I do understand it , dear , ' answers the girl , putting her strong , young , protecting arm round the frail shrinking form ; ' I ...
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... girl , with a laugh , although I am convent - bred . Yonder cometh good Master Raymond to escort me as his wont is to the postern door in the convent orchard ; manful as he is , he hath the loutish manners these burghers ever have , and ...
... girl , with a laugh , although I am convent - bred . Yonder cometh good Master Raymond to escort me as his wont is to the postern door in the convent orchard ; manful as he is , he hath the loutish manners these burghers ever have , and ...
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... girl's luxuriant hair . ' I tell myself so often , mother ; but do not look so scared , I did not mean to vex you , and I spoke per- chance more vehemently than I ought , but still the thought is in my heart , always there , and I seem ...
... girl's luxuriant hair . ' I tell myself so often , mother ; but do not look so scared , I did not mean to vex you , and I spoke per- chance more vehemently than I ought , but still the thought is in my heart , always there , and I seem ...
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Jacqueline: A Story of the Reformation in Holland (1872) Janet Gordon Hardy Aucun aperçu disponible - 2008 |
Jacqueline: A Story of the Reformation in Holland (1872) Janet Gordon Hardy Aucun aperçu disponible - 2008 |
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