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Page 171
... Baroness Sophie in a foreign bookseller's shop in the Graben , where she was , possibly , buying books of devotion , though it was the wrong counter for them . " I've just left the dear children at the Rodenstahls ' , " was the Gräfin's ...
... Baroness Sophie in a foreign bookseller's shop in the Graben , where she was , possibly , buying books of devotion , though it was the wrong counter for them . " I've just left the dear children at the Rodenstahls ' , " was the Gräfin's ...
Page 204
... Baroness would remorselessly cut it out , or more often dove- tail it into her own part , while Clovis retaliated in a similar fashion whenever possible . The climax came when Clytem- nestra annexed some highly complimentary lines ...
... Baroness would remorselessly cut it out , or more often dove- tail it into her own part , while Clovis retaliated in a similar fashion whenever possible . The climax came when Clytem- nestra annexed some highly complimentary lines ...
Page 462
... Baroness turned the conversation to a less embarrassing topic than family histories . But afterwards , when the old ... Baroness ; " she knows she will soon be past work and she wants to appeal to our sympathies . Her grandfather ...
... Baroness turned the conversation to a less embarrassing topic than family histories . But afterwards , when the old ... Baroness ; " she knows she will soon be past work and she wants to appeal to our sympathies . Her grandfather ...
Contents
Introduction by Christopher Morley | 10 |
Reginald | 10 |
The Saint and the Goblin | 75 |
Copyright | |
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