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... Paris and Germany , and when it was decided so to do , I thought it well to add those concerning the city he loved so well and knew so thoroughly . That they are mere suggestions of what he intended will be obvious to all who knew him ...
... Paris and Germany , and when it was decided so to do , I thought it well to add those concerning the city he loved so well and knew so thoroughly . That they are mere suggestions of what he intended will be obvious to all who knew him ...
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... SLEEPLESS LONDON XIII . A CONCLUSION : LONDON THE PROVINCIAL 89 97 PART II . - THE PARIS OF TO - DAY . I. THE CAPITAL OF CIVILISATION II . THE DAY OF THE DEAD III . IN THE CAFÉ 105 112 119 IV . THE REVENGE FOR FASHODA : A PARABLE V.
... SLEEPLESS LONDON XIII . A CONCLUSION : LONDON THE PROVINCIAL 89 97 PART II . - THE PARIS OF TO - DAY . I. THE CAPITAL OF CIVILISATION II . THE DAY OF THE DEAD III . IN THE CAFÉ 105 112 119 IV . THE REVENGE FOR FASHODA : A PARABLE V.
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... Paris or Berlin or Vienna you would have seen café - fronts , under verandahs , alive with people sipping and puffing the storm away ; in London there is a drowned rat of an errand - boy plashing across the street , a well - dressed ...
... Paris or Berlin or Vienna you would have seen café - fronts , under verandahs , alive with people sipping and puffing the storm away ; in London there is a drowned rat of an errand - boy plashing across the street , a well - dressed ...
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... - nourished , well- groomed , well - dressed , and supremely beautiful , they made such a show as could be seen nowhere else out of dreams . Paris could not approach it ; Vienna To perhaps would come nearest . But if the ladies 60 LONDON .
... - nourished , well- groomed , well - dressed , and supremely beautiful , they made such a show as could be seen nowhere else out of dreams . Paris could not approach it ; Vienna To perhaps would come nearest . But if the ladies 60 LONDON .
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... Paris going for half - a - crown , because the purchaser had not three shillings . His philosophic mind might arrive at the con- clusion that the hospital would have benefited more if everybody had given cash instead of goods or time or ...
... Paris going for half - a - crown , because the purchaser had not three shillings . His philosophic mind might arrive at the con- clusion that the hospital would have benefited more if everybody had given cash instead of goods or time or ...
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