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Page 77
... appeared long ago to have lost any real touch with the twentieth - century world . He had a straggling beard , and beneath his thin moustache a slightly moist pink lip protruded . His voice was faint ; his eyes were glazed and pale ...
... appeared long ago to have lost any real touch with the twentieth - century world . He had a straggling beard , and beneath his thin moustache a slightly moist pink lip protruded . His voice was faint ; his eyes were glazed and pale ...
Page 84
... appeared to be little sympathy , either in aesthetic or in personal questions . But then , imaginative artists are seldom exemplary parents . Augustus , for example , amid his own family , was always the Monarch of the Glen , keeping a ...
... appeared to be little sympathy , either in aesthetic or in personal questions . But then , imaginative artists are seldom exemplary parents . Augustus , for example , amid his own family , was always the Monarch of the Glen , keeping a ...
Page 135
... appeared on the steps of the plane , was slowly carried down and , having instructed her nervous guests to follow her , moved processionally over the airfield towards a far - off taxi - rank - an apparition so dazzling and bewildering ...
... appeared on the steps of the plane , was slowly carried down and , having instructed her nervous guests to follow her , moved processionally over the airfield towards a far - off taxi - rank - an apparition so dazzling and bewildering ...
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The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
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