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... least some hints toward our never- ending research into the moral anatomy of man . Literature of this kind is perhaps more congenial to the speculative thought of Germany than to the reading public of England . Still , I am not.
... least some hints toward our never- ending research into the moral anatomy of man . Literature of this kind is perhaps more congenial to the speculative thought of Germany than to the reading public of England . Still , I am not.
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... least , for the excellence of its vintage . As this book is not a biog raphy , and my part in the events I am about to record is only that of a witness , I am anxious to obtrude my own personality as little as possible upon the atten ...
... least , for the excellence of its vintage . As this book is not a biog raphy , and my part in the events I am about to record is only that of a witness , I am anxious to obtrude my own personality as little as possible upon the atten ...
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... insipid ara- besque . In those boxes sit the victims of the great world's great ennui . Fine ladies and gentlemen , who 66 come late , " like Count Isolani in the play ; but not like Isolani , who , at least , did not 20 THE DOCTOR .
... insipid ara- besque . In those boxes sit the victims of the great world's great ennui . Fine ladies and gentlemen , who 66 come late , " like Count Isolani in the play ; but not like Isolani , who , at least , did not 20 THE DOCTOR .
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... least , did not come with empty hands . These come , for the most part , with empty hearts and empty heads . What is Hecuba to them , or they to Hecuba ? Far dearer to me , I confess , is that dingy orchestra , behind whose smoky lamps ...
... least , did not come with empty hands . These come , for the most part , with empty hearts and empty heads . What is Hecuba to them , or they to Hecuba ? Far dearer to me , I confess , is that dingy orchestra , behind whose smoky lamps ...
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... least expected , and was least prepared to hear it . I hear it now as my memory reverts to past events . Perhaps I shall continue to hear it till I have closed this narrative , which , by its restless recurrence , like an unlaid ghost ...
... least expected , and was least prepared to hear it . I hear it now as my memory reverts to past events . Perhaps I shall continue to hear it till I have closed this narrative , which , by its restless recurrence , like an unlaid ghost ...
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ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE Amasis amethyst apparition appeared arms beautiful boat body Bois de Boulogne brain Breslau brother CHAPTER chateau child Cloth cold consciousness Count Edmond countenance countess croupiers DANIEL BUTTERFIELD dark dead death Divine door dream Dutch Republic ed balls Egyptian eternity face fancy fatal ring father feel Felix felt finger forever Gentleman in Black hand haps hast heard heart honor hour human imagination Juliet Kabyl least light lips living look Loreley man's melancholy ment mind mond mother mysterious nature never night noble object once pain papyrus passed passion patient perhaps physician poor ring rock seemed seize sensation sense Sethos side sight silent Silesia soul sound spectre strange stretched suddenly swimmer thee Theresa thing tion Trente et Quarante turned valet voice words young
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