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“Very well,” cried I, “that’s a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make a gooseberry pye.”
“Very well,” cried I, “that’s a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make a gooseberry pye.”
Approximate author period: c. 1751 AD · early modern
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- Oliver Goldsmith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1751 AD · early modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 139 · printed citation: Goldsmith (The Vicar of Wakefield). · compiler notes excluded
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