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... romantic , and had a natural craving for solitude , ' la nostalgie ' , as Jules Janin wrote of Marie Duplessis , ' de la paix , du calme et de l'amour3 ; but Marie - and there they undoubtedly differed - carried her romantic tendencies ...
... romantic , and had a natural craving for solitude , ' la nostalgie ' , as Jules Janin wrote of Marie Duplessis , ' de la paix , du calme et de l'amour3 ; but Marie - and there they undoubtedly differed - carried her romantic tendencies ...
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... romantic love - affairs that continued to warm his heart until the day he died . Of these , the most romantic was his passion for Vanessa Bell , the benign Madonna of his circle . She and her sister Virginia were , of course , a devoted ...
... romantic love - affairs that continued to warm his heart until the day he died . Of these , the most romantic was his passion for Vanessa Bell , the benign Madonna of his circle . She and her sister Virginia were , of course , a devoted ...
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... romantic . But , in those days , there was something peculiarly romantic about every detail of the journey one's midnight meal , bought through the window just before the train left Rome , salami , bread , oranges and a straw ...
... romantic . But , in those days , there was something peculiarly romantic about every detail of the journey one's midnight meal , bought through the window just before the train left Rome , salami , bread , oranges and a straw ...
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PROLOGUE I | 1 |
The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
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