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Page 254
Arthur Quiller-Couch. the Experiment has been so kind as to come back to inform us . Upon the whole matter , I account ... kind , as both unbecoming my years and my small experience , yet I esteemed it pardonable at least , if in doing my ...
Arthur Quiller-Couch. the Experiment has been so kind as to come back to inform us . Upon the whole matter , I account ... kind , as both unbecoming my years and my small experience , yet I esteemed it pardonable at least , if in doing my ...
Page 529
... kind purposes towards you all , ' ' His Majesty's kind purposes ! ' said the Wanderer . ' Do I hear you aright , sir ? ' ' I speak the king's very words , from his very lips , ' replied the general . " I will , " said his Majesty ...
... kind purposes towards you all , ' ' His Majesty's kind purposes ! ' said the Wanderer . ' Do I hear you aright , sir ? ' ' I speak the king's very words , from his very lips , ' replied the general . " I will , " said his Majesty ...
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... kind , his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better , though less edu- cated minds ; who , like blunt weapons , tear and hack instead of cutting clean , who mistake the point in argument , waste ...
... kind , his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better , though less edu- cated minds ; who , like blunt weapons , tear and hack instead of cutting clean , who mistake the point in argument , waste ...
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