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Page 12
... hand me another whisky - and - soda and we would quietly resume our talk . Yes , I had read the book , I assured him , and thought it , if not a work of genius , an able piece of nineteenth - century fiction , with many admirably ...
... hand me another whisky - and - soda and we would quietly resume our talk . Yes , I had read the book , I assured him , and thought it , if not a work of genius , an able piece of nineteenth - century fiction , with many admirably ...
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... hand - to - hand beneath the walls of Troy , appears on the tower that surmounted the Skaian gates , where the Trojan elders are assembled . Old men who have given up war , and whose elderly voices are like those of grasshoppers ...
... hand - to - hand beneath the walls of Troy , appears on the tower that surmounted the Skaian gates , where the Trojan elders are assembled . Old men who have given up war , and whose elderly voices are like those of grasshoppers ...
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... hand on my shoulder , he said : " They will never forgive me my superiority ! " I can still feel the impression of that hand , as if Satan had touched me with his fiery claw . ' I L'INUTILE BEAUTE 1. A Lonely Business : A Self ...
... hand on my shoulder , he said : " They will never forgive me my superiority ! " I can still feel the impression of that hand , as if Satan had touched me with his fiery claw . ' I L'INUTILE BEAUTE 1. A Lonely Business : A Self ...
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The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
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