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Page 59
... conversation . They talked incessantly , and not only about their own lives and their absorbing private problems - they were all of them avid gossips ; and their com- ments on Clive Bell's amatory affairs , or Virginia's ' wicked ...
... conversation . They talked incessantly , and not only about their own lives and their absorbing private problems - they were all of them avid gossips ; and their com- ments on Clive Bell's amatory affairs , or Virginia's ' wicked ...
Page 64
... conversation , though Rose and Elizabeth were both such for- midable talkers that , after conversing with either of them for a couple of hours , Virginia had , she admitted , ' a dull heavy mop inside my brain next day ... ' . Rose's ...
... conversation , though Rose and Elizabeth were both such for- midable talkers that , after conversing with either of them for a couple of hours , Virginia had , she admitted , ' a dull heavy mop inside my brain next day ... ' . Rose's ...
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... conversation . Some of her earliest memories , she said , were connected with London ; for , when she was a little girl , she and her family had stayed at Brown's Hotel . This must have been late in 1870 , when she was only five years ...
... conversation . Some of her earliest memories , she said , were connected with London ; for , when she was a little girl , she and her family had stayed at Brown's Hotel . This must have been late in 1870 , when she was only five years ...
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The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
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