Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 92Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1916 - American literature |
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Page 177
... palmistry . " Laider turned in his chair . " You believe in palmistry ? " I hesitated . " Yes , somehow I do . Why ? I have n't the slightest notion . I can give my- self all sorts of reasons for laughing it to scorn . My common ...
... palmistry . " Laider turned in his chair . " You believe in palmistry ? " I hesitated . " Yes , somehow I do . Why ? I have n't the slightest notion . I can give my- self all sorts of reasons for laughing it to scorn . My common ...
Page 178
... palmistry - without any reason ? " " Oh , no . Everything points to our having free will . " " Everything ? What , for instance ? " This rather cornered me . I dodged out , as lightly as I could , by saying : " I suppose you would say ...
... palmistry - without any reason ? " " Oh , no . Everything points to our having free will . " " Everything ? What , for instance ? " This rather cornered me . I dodged out , as lightly as I could , by saying : " I suppose you would say ...
Page 179
... Palmistry was one of them . I was rather ashamed of this one . It seemed to me absurd , as it seems to you . Like you , though , I believed in it . Unlike you , I had done more than merely read a book about it . I had read innumerable ...
... Palmistry was one of them . I was rather ashamed of this one . It seemed to me absurd , as it seems to you . Like you , though , I believed in it . Unlike you , I had done more than merely read a book about it . I had read innumerable ...
Page 180
... palmist as a man may be without giving his whole life to palmistry . " One of the first things I had seen in my own hand , as soon as I had learned to read it , was that at about the age of twenty - six I should have a narrow escape ...
... palmist as a man may be without giving his whole life to palmistry . " One of the first things I had seen in my own hand , as soon as I had learned to read it , was that at about the age of twenty - six I should have a narrow escape ...
Page 185
... palmistry ? " " Oh , no . But I was n't able to tell you that . You had begun by saying that you believed in palmistry , and then you pro- ceeded to scoff at it . While you scoffed I saw myself as a man with a terribly good reason for ...
... palmistry ? " " Oh , no . But I was n't able to tell you that . You had begun by saying that you believed in palmistry , and then you pro- ceeded to scoff at it . While you scoffed I saw myself as a man with a terribly good reason for ...
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