Last week

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"I wrote to him, my love, last week, and rather expect to see, than to hear from him again.

I have seen Sir James; he came to town for a few days last week, and called several times in Edward Street.

A lady in the next ward who walked last week first, peeked into the door, and another one who hopes she can walk next month, was invited in to the party, and she laid on my nurse's bed and clapped her hands.

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Their engagements at Rosings were as frequent during the last week of her stay as they had been at first.

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In looks and conduct she has altered most shockingly in the last week. I believe there is some dreadful trouble on her mind; and I am afraid, from what I see of her, that she is on the eve of a serious illness.

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"That's bad, very bad," said Grant, shaking his head; "I know two men who died of that last week; it takes 'em off in no time; but while there's life there's hope, so you must keep up your spirits."

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No answer to General Call having been received during the last week from following overdues, they are posted as missing:

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Alexander Marr of Markdale died very suddenly last week. We never heard of his death till he was dead.

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If I had had any but a unnat'ral wife, and this poor boy had had any but a unnat'ral mother, I might have made some money last week instead of being counter-prayed and countermined and religiously circumwented into the worst of luck.

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I wrote Alec and Alonzo last week. I put the letters into envelopes and addressed them, but I didn't seal them up.

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She has not been at all well these three months, and now that the damp weather has begun she is very poorly indeed; so that last week papa decided to have a consultation, and he and mamma went with her up to town and saw some three or four doctors.

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James Morland, before she remembered that her eldest brother had lately formed an intimacy with a young man of his own college, of the name of Thorpe; and that he had spent the last week of the Christmas vacation with his family, near London.

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