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False Friends, and The Sailor's Resolve, by
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Title: False Friends, and The Sailor's Resolve
Author: Unknown
Release Date: December 31, 2004 [eBook #14543]
Language: English
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FALSE FRIENDS
THE SAILOR'S RESOLVE
1884
[Illustration: LADY GRANGE READING TO HER SON. _Page 19._]
[Illustration: A TALK ABOUT THE PICTURE. _Page 33._]
FALSE FRIENDS
"Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward."--PROV. xxii. 5.
[Illustration: REFLECTION. _Page 25._]
"Philip, your conduct has distressed me exceedingly," said Lady Grange, laying her hand on the arm of her son, as they entered together the elegant apartment which had been fitted up as her boudoir. "You could not but know my feelings towards those two men--I will not call them gentlemen--whose company you have again forced upon me. You must be aware that your father has shut the door of this house against them."
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