Works, Volumen1

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Tauchnitz, 1842

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3
II
12
III
29
IV
71
V
83
VI
95
VII
117
VIII
135
XIII
215
XIV
227
XV
247
XVI
269
XVII
281
XVIII
301
XIX
1
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43

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155
X
175
XI
189
XII
201
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100
XXII
149
XXIII
193
XXIV
265

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Página 41 - She never seems to repine, but has all the buoyancy and gaiety of childhood. She is fond of fun and frolic, and when playing with the rest of the children, her shrill laugh sounds loudest of the group.
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Página 37 - It was now observed that her sense of smell was almost entirely destroyed; and, consequently, that her taste was much blunted. It was not until four years of age that the poor child's bodily health seem restored, and she was able to enter upon her apprenticeship of life and the world.
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