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... remember , was the subject of our last conversation , though I have forgotten how or where we met . I remember , too , that his air of perpetual youth delighted me , and , as we talked of the poet we both loved , the gust of enthusiasm ...
... remember , was the subject of our last conversation , though I have forgotten how or where we met . I remember , too , that his air of perpetual youth delighted me , and , as we talked of the poet we both loved , the gust of enthusiasm ...
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... remember the standards against which he judged them and the high ambitions that had fired his youth . He had then thought and planned on the most extensive scale . At one stage , excited by the drawings of Puvis de Chavannes , he ...
... remember the standards against which he judged them and the high ambitions that had fired his youth . He had then thought and planned on the most extensive scale . At one stage , excited by the drawings of Puvis de Chavannes , he ...
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... remember , the most ori- ginal of Victorian statesmen , and related how his predecessor had elected to bestow the Garter on some presumably deserving duke . It was an excellent piece of historical story - telling ; every detail had the ...
... remember , the most ori- ginal of Victorian statesmen , and related how his predecessor had elected to bestow the Garter on some presumably deserving duke . It was an excellent piece of historical story - telling ; every detail had the ...
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PROLOGUE I | 1 |
The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
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