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... 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 might hit back . The ...
... 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 might hit back . The ...
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... Young Turkish Party was known to be three or four hundred votes ahead , and he was already drafting his address , returning thanks to the electors . His vic- tory had been almost a foregone conclusion , for he had set in motion all the ...
... Young Turkish Party was known to be three or four hundred votes ahead , and he was already drafting his address , returning thanks to the electors . His vic- tory had been almost a foregone conclusion , for he had set in motion all the ...
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... young people were contesting a game of lawn tennis at the Rectory garden party ; for the past five - and - twenty years at least mixed doubles of young people had done exactly the same thing on exactly the same spot at about the same ...
... young people were contesting a game of lawn tennis at the Rectory garden party ; for the past five - and - twenty years at least mixed doubles of young people had done exactly the same thing on exactly the same spot at about the same ...
Contents
Introduction by Christopher Morley | 10 |
Reginald | 10 |
The Saint and the Goblin | 75 |
Copyright | |
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