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... charm ; and slowly it had dawned on him that ' she is entirely unedu- cated , interested in theosophy , dieting , and all other cranky subjects .... Cecil Beaton guarded her like an eagle ... I saw her altogether nine or ten times ...
... charm ; and slowly it had dawned on him that ' she is entirely unedu- cated , interested in theosophy , dieting , and all other cranky subjects .... Cecil Beaton guarded her like an eagle ... I saw her altogether nine or ten times ...
Page 48
... charm he exercised - a charm that seemed to go far beyond the ordinary social graces . I learned with regret of his subsequent misadventures . His views were judged erroneous , if not positively heretical , by his Jesuit superiors , and ...
... charm he exercised - a charm that seemed to go far beyond the ordinary social graces . I learned with regret of his subsequent misadventures . His views were judged erroneous , if not positively heretical , by his Jesuit superiors , and ...
Page 93
... charm , was a theme she found engrossing . Portia's innocence is bruised first by the cynical suspicions of Anna Quayne and of her chief Black Hat , St Quentin ; later , by the serpentine advances of Eddie , whose pretended helplessness ...
... charm , was a theme she found engrossing . Portia's innocence is bruised first by the cynical suspicions of Anna Quayne and of her chief Black Hat , St Quentin ; later , by the serpentine advances of Eddie , whose pretended helplessness ...
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