The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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Here I soon met folk I knew— comrades of student days , revolution- ists . What a spectacle within the pal- ace , lately so still and dignified ! Tired soldiers lay sleeping in heaps in every hall and corridor .
Here I soon met folk I knew— comrades of student days , revolution- ists . What a spectacle within the pal- ace , lately so still and dignified ! Tired soldiers lay sleeping in heaps in every hall and corridor .
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I knew I was fighting life and chances and risks if I did it ; but it was death if I stayed there . And then - Do you really care to hear ? ' ' Of course . Tell me how you broke your chain . ' - ' I spare you the family quarrels .
I knew I was fighting life and chances and risks if I did it ; but it was death if I stayed there . And then - Do you really care to hear ? ' ' Of course . Tell me how you broke your chain . ' - ' I spare you the family quarrels .
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He knew- we all know- that he was on guard here holding the outposts against blood and treachery and terrible things - playing the Great Game . One never loses at that game if one plays it straight , and I am sure that at the last it ...
He knew- we all know- that he was on guard here holding the outposts against blood and treachery and terrible things - playing the Great Game . One never loses at that game if one plays it straight , and I am sure that at the last it ...
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So we set . out perforce , Vanna leading steadily , as if she knew the way . She never looked up , and her wish for silence was so evi- dent , that I followed , lending my hand mutely when the difficulties obliged it , she accepting ...
So we set . out perforce , Vanna leading steadily , as if she knew the way . She never looked up , and her wish for silence was so evi- dent , that I followed , lending my hand mutely when the difficulties obliged it , she accepting ...
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Next day I could see that she tried , gently but clearly , to discourage our meeting ; and for three days I never saw her at all . Yet I knew that in her solitary life our talks counted for a pleasure .
Next day I could see that she tried , gently but clearly , to discourage our meeting ; and for three days I never saw her at all . Yet I knew that in her solitary life our talks counted for a pleasure .
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