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  • She found abundance of provisions laid in, his plan being to replenish his buttery weekly, and this being the day after the victualling van had called from Sherton.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • If the flame did indeed burn lower now than when he had fetched her from Sherton at her last return from school, the marvel was small.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • At any rate, in two or three days I could do anything to assist — such as make inquiries, or go a great way towards Sherton – Abbas with you; for the cider season will soon be coming on, and I want to run down to the Vale to see how the crops are, and I shall go by the Sherton road.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • There, that piece of parchment represents houses in Sherton

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  • I always walk from Sherton – Abbas, for if I hire, people will know that I come; and my success with you so far has not been great enough to justify such overtness.

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  • The elegant Fitzpiers, in fact, at that very moment owed a long bill at the above-mentioned hotel for the luxurious style in which he used to put her up there whenever they drove to Sherton.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • I get dreadfully nervous sometimes, living in such an outlandish place; and Sherton is so far to send to.

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  • The woman herself was a shadowy, conjectural creature who had little to do with the outlines presented to Sherton eyes; a shape in the gloom, whose true description could only be approximated by putting together a movement now and a glance then, in that patient and long-continued attentiveness which nothing but watchful loving-kindness ever troubles to give.

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  • “A Sherton man called — nothing to trouble about,” she said, soothingly.

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  • Anyhow, such a gentleman had driven away from the hotel at Sherton next day in a carriage hired at that inn.

    The Woodlanders 2006

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