The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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The apartment appeared to be an office , but there were no papers on the desk . I rose and stared at the books on the bookshelves . My attention was arrested by an edition of Thackeray's works in a decorative binding of what looked like ...
The apartment appeared to be an office , but there were no papers on the desk . I rose and stared at the books on the bookshelves . My attention was arrested by an edition of Thackeray's works in a decorative binding of what looked like ...
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... and also mentioned the names of a few English people I might come into contact with there . ' I will see if- - the Chief is ready , ' he said , finally , rising . ' I will be back in a moment . ' - a The apartment appeared to be an ...
... and also mentioned the names of a few English people I might come into contact with there . ' I will see if- - the Chief is ready , ' he said , finally , rising . ' I will be back in a moment . ' - a The apartment appeared to be an ...
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The writing- desk was so placed , with the window behind it , that on entering everything appeared only in silhouette . It was some seconds before I could clearly dis- tinguish things . A row of half a dozen extending telephones stood ...
The writing- desk was so placed , with the window behind it , that on entering everything appeared only in silhouette . It was some seconds before I could clearly dis- tinguish things . A row of half a dozen extending telephones stood ...
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But at Archangel , realiz- ing that to return to Russia as an Eng- lishman was impossible , I let my beard grow and assumed an appearance en- tirely Russian . Failing in Archangel , I traveled down to Helsingfors , to try my luck from ...
But at Archangel , realiz- ing that to return to Russia as an Eng- lishman was impossible , I let my beard grow and assumed an appearance en- tirely Russian . Failing in Archangel , I traveled down to Helsingfors , to try my luck from ...
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All four men were shabbily dressed and very rough in appearance . They spoke Russian well , but conversed in Finnish among themselves . One of them said something to the cadaverous man and appeared to be remonstrating with him for ...
All four men were shabbily dressed and very rough in appearance . They spoke Russian well , but conversed in Finnish among themselves . One of them said something to the cadaverous man and appeared to be remonstrating with him for ...
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