Belgravia: A London Magazine, Volume 76Chatto and Windus, 1891 |
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... thought it necessary to attempt this feat with Captain La Touche ! As she chatted with her usual fluency , he listened and looked . Truly , this is no shy girl of nineteen , but a woman ten years older , with a knowledge of the world ...
... thought it necessary to attempt this feat with Captain La Touche ! As she chatted with her usual fluency , he listened and looked . Truly , this is no shy girl of nineteen , but a woman ten years older , with a knowledge of the world ...
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... thought them almost past feeling . But the lively twitching of their ears , as they caught the hubbub , or saw the bystanders with their unbandaged eye ( if they were not quite blind ) , told of sensibility yet within them . Some of ...
... thought them almost past feeling . But the lively twitching of their ears , as they caught the hubbub , or saw the bystanders with their unbandaged eye ( if they were not quite blind ) , told of sensibility yet within them . Some of ...
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... thought three francs a working day much too little . The poor fellow's bust alone was worth at least five . There chanced to be a strike in Barcelona at the time , and he was in full sympathy with it . Just before we came in sight of ...
... thought three francs a working day much too little . The poor fellow's bust alone was worth at least five . There chanced to be a strike in Barcelona at the time , and he was in full sympathy with it . Just before we came in sight of ...
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... thought the Pyrenees would be sure to tap all the clouds that passed within hail of them . That they failed to do this I bore excellent testimony when , an hour later , I strode soppingly into the quadrangle of the monastery , and ...
... thought the Pyrenees would be sure to tap all the clouds that passed within hail of them . That they failed to do this I bore excellent testimony when , an hour later , I strode soppingly into the quadrangle of the monastery , and ...
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... thought the courses would never end . But it was so frigid for the lonely pilgrim . The others sat by themselves , ladies and gentlemen , and boys and girls . They were quite riotously merry . The Marquis somebody ( the waiter told me ...
... thought the courses would never end . But it was so frigid for the lonely pilgrim . The others sat by themselves , ladies and gentlemen , and boys and girls . They were quite riotously merry . The Marquis somebody ( the waiter told me ...
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