The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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Page 8
I looked curiously across at the gloomy buildings and the dull twinkling lights on the other bank . ... The Finn who opened the door examined the paper by the light of a greasy oil lamp , then held the lamp to my face , peered closely ...
I looked curiously across at the gloomy buildings and the dull twinkling lights on the other bank . ... The Finn who opened the door examined the paper by the light of a greasy oil lamp , then held the lamp to my face , peered closely ...
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I was already running hard when I saw a light emerge from the cottage on the left . I forgot the in- junctions as to direction , and simply bolted away from that lantern . Half- way across the sloping meadow I drop- ped and lay still .
I was already running hard when I saw a light emerge from the cottage on the left . I forgot the in- junctions as to direction , and simply bolted away from that lantern . Half- way across the sloping meadow I drop- ped and lay still .
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And , strangely buoyant , I stepped light- ly out of the station into the familiar streets . THE people were astonished , for he taught them as one having authority , and not as those who had gone to col- lege ( unauthorized translation ) ...
And , strangely buoyant , I stepped light- ly out of the station into the familiar streets . THE people were astonished , for he taught them as one having authority , and not as those who had gone to col- lege ( unauthorized translation ) ...
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It is not every child whose sleep is as light as little Samuel's , whose dreams are stirred by strange voices as were Joan of Arc's ; but there are many more pencil , the sculptor the chisel of cen- turies , EDUCATION FOR AUTHORITY 15.
It is not every child whose sleep is as light as little Samuel's , whose dreams are stirred by strange voices as were Joan of Arc's ; but there are many more pencil , the sculptor the chisel of cen- turies , EDUCATION FOR AUTHORITY 15.
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They have closed up that literary red - light district . Let me repeat , and then have done with this argument : the people who go to moving pictures would not , had there been no moving pictures , have been going to see Hamlet .
They have closed up that literary red - light district . Let me repeat , and then have done with this argument : the people who go to moving pictures would not , had there been no moving pictures , have been going to see Hamlet .
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