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Page 67
... Augustus , a cigarette - stub between his fingers , strands of grey hair carefully brushed across his huge , impressive skull , which had begun by then to grow bald , emerges from the door behind . Clearly , he is in his calmest ...
... Augustus , a cigarette - stub between his fingers , strands of grey hair carefully brushed across his huge , impressive skull , which had begun by then to grow bald , emerges from the door behind . Clearly , he is in his calmest ...
Page 72
... Augustus a wall . And then , had a mighty theme been proposed , could Augustus , lacking Delacroix's imaginative and executive impetus , have adequately handled it ? A Romantic he may have been , but he was also a melancholic ; and his ...
... Augustus a wall . And then , had a mighty theme been proposed , could Augustus , lacking Delacroix's imaginative and executive impetus , have adequately handled it ? A Romantic he may have been , but he was also a melancholic ; and his ...
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... Augustus with deep affec- tion but , now and then , with some alarm ; and he once described to me how , during the War years , he had visited the Johns ' country house . Wartime rationing was still severe , and he felt that he must ...
... Augustus with deep affec- tion but , now and then , with some alarm ; and he once described to me how , during the War years , he had visited the Johns ' country house . Wartime rationing was still severe , and he felt that he must ...
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PROLOGUE I | 1 |
The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
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