The Complete Short Stories of SakiHalcyon house, 1939 - 718 pages |
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... thought - reading by a young man whom one knew instinctively had a good mother and an indifferent tailor - the sort of young man who talks unflaggingly through the thickest soup , and smooths his hair dubiously as though he thought it ...
... thought - reading by a young man whom one knew instinctively had a good mother and an indifferent tailor - the sort of young man who talks unflaggingly through the thickest soup , and smooths his hair dubiously as though he thought it ...
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... thought of that house with the stricken wombats in it . It simply wasn't nice . But the editors were unanimous in leaving it alone ; they said the thing had been done before and done worse , and that the market for that sort of work was ...
... thought of that house with the stricken wombats in it . It simply wasn't nice . But the editors were unanimous in leaving it alone ; they said the thing had been done before and done worse , and that the market for that sort of work was ...
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... thought first of those who were under him , he was a cor- poral at this time , before ministering to his own needs . I got the biggest " slating " from him on this subject at a later date . Briefly the circumstances were these : I was ...
... thought first of those who were under him , he was a cor- poral at this time , before ministering to his own needs . I got the biggest " slating " from him on this subject at a later date . Briefly the circumstances were these : I was ...
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Reginald on Christmas Presents | 6 |
Reginalds Peace Poem | 13 |
Reginald on HouseParties | 20 |
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