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Page 64
... Elizabeth Bowen's gifts , ' lit up ' , said Elizabeth , ' a confidence I never had ' . Rose's kindness showed ' a touch of imaginative genius ' ; and she intro- duced Elizabeth to Naomi Royde - Smith , the editress of the Saturday ...
... Elizabeth Bowen's gifts , ' lit up ' , said Elizabeth , ' a confidence I never had ' . Rose's kindness showed ' a touch of imaginative genius ' ; and she intro- duced Elizabeth to Naomi Royde - Smith , the editress of the Saturday ...
Page 88
... Elizabeth been a Frenchwoman born twenty or thirty years earlier , she would no doubt have launched a salon ; and Lady Ottoline Morrell , indeed , once announced that she was ' casting her mantle ' on Elizabeth's shoulders . But ...
... Elizabeth been a Frenchwoman born twenty or thirty years earlier , she would no doubt have launched a salon ; and Lady Ottoline Morrell , indeed , once announced that she was ' casting her mantle ' on Elizabeth's shoulders . But ...
Page 93
... Elizabeth was no Madame de Merteuil , Val- mont's accomplice and beloved adversary in Les Liaisons Dan- gereuses ... Elizabeth's favourite seaside towns , where she enjoys a degree of comfort and mild domestic fun she had been denied in ...
... Elizabeth was no Madame de Merteuil , Val- mont's accomplice and beloved adversary in Les Liaisons Dan- gereuses ... Elizabeth's favourite seaside towns , where she enjoys a degree of comfort and mild domestic fun she had been denied in ...
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The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
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