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Page 74
... took a small space and , knowing intuitively just what she meant to do , filled it with her chosen image - a nun , a young girl , a woman reading , a cat playing or the corner of a sunny room . The effects she sought were always ...
... took a small space and , knowing intuitively just what she meant to do , filled it with her chosen image - a nun , a young girl , a woman reading , a cat playing or the corner of a sunny room . The effects she sought were always ...
Page 78
... took me to his little neo - Gothic house near Maida Vale , where he opened an ebony cabinet and pro- duced a first edition of Les Fleurs du Mal , bound in delicately- tooled , dove - grey leather ; it had been Baudelaire's personal copy ...
... took me to his little neo - Gothic house near Maida Vale , where he opened an ebony cabinet and pro- duced a first edition of Les Fleurs du Mal , bound in delicately- tooled , dove - grey leather ; it had been Baudelaire's personal copy ...
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... Surrealists . Daisy's Napoleonic spirit was clearly much in evidence if she took command of her yacht , the Sister Anne , on which sometimes she threaded the Greek islands , sometimes wafted her 133 A WOMAN OF THE WORLD.
... Surrealists . Daisy's Napoleonic spirit was clearly much in evidence if she took command of her yacht , the Sister Anne , on which sometimes she threaded the Greek islands , sometimes wafted her 133 A WOMAN OF THE WORLD.
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The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
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