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... look . There are times , however , when an un- known correspondent provides a heartening piece of news . Not long ago , for example , an American scholar wrote from a Penn- sylvanian university and , after explaining that he was engaged ...
... look . There are times , however , when an un- known correspondent provides a heartening piece of news . Not long ago , for example , an American scholar wrote from a Penn- sylvanian university and , after explaining that he was engaged ...
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... look , as if he were confronting a technical problem that he knew he could not hope to solve . - - Yet what an amusing and engaging face it is the high forehead , surmounted by a shock of snow - white hair roughly parted down the centre ...
... look , as if he were confronting a technical problem that he knew he could not hope to solve . - - Yet what an amusing and engaging face it is the high forehead , surmounted by a shock of snow - white hair roughly parted down the centre ...
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... Look at that old girl ! ' he exclaimed . ' I shouldn't think that she'd get many customers ! ' It was the Marchesa Casati , I saw , who happened to be passing by , wearing her usual disconsolate uniform , as she pursued her star upon ...
... Look at that old girl ! ' he exclaimed . ' I shouldn't think that she'd get many customers ! ' It was the Marchesa Casati , I saw , who happened to be passing by , wearing her usual disconsolate uniform , as she pursued her star upon ...
Contents
The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
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