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Page 262
... wish for by retailing an account of how he had turned a vegetable marrow into a wood - pigeon before her very eyes . As a mani- festation of the possession of supernatural powers , the story was discounted in some quarters by the ...
... wish for by retailing an account of how he had turned a vegetable marrow into a wood - pigeon before her very eyes . As a mani- festation of the possession of supernatural powers , the story was discounted in some quarters by the ...
Page 296
... wish in those words , a wish which was unconfessed as well as unspoken . Emma Ladbruk was the mistress of the farm ; jointly with her husband she might have her say , and to a certain extent her way , in ordering its affairs . But she ...
... wish in those words , a wish which was unconfessed as well as unspoken . Emma Ladbruk was the mistress of the farm ; jointly with her husband she might have her say , and to a certain extent her way , in ordering its affairs . But she ...
Page 298
... wish was there , dis- owned though it might be , lurking at the back of her mind . She felt the meanness of the wish come over her with a qualm of self - reproach one day when she came into the kitchen and found an unaccustomed state of ...
... wish was there , dis- owned though it might be , lurking at the back of her mind . She felt the meanness of the wish come over her with a qualm of self - reproach one day when she came into the kitchen and found an unaccustomed state of ...
Contents
Introduction by Christopher Morley | 10 |
Reginald | 10 |
The Saint and the Goblin | 75 |
Copyright | |
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