Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 99Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1919 - American literature |
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... Street learned to do the neatest pattern with white thread and a needle not much bigger than a tooth- pick . He had been working at it for a couple of weeks before he thought to ask : " Say , lady , what am I making ? " " It's a yoke ...
... Street learned to do the neatest pattern with white thread and a needle not much bigger than a tooth- pick . He had been working at it for a couple of weeks before he thought to ask : " Say , lady , what am I making ? " " It's a yoke ...
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... street , and thought her " a very interesting young woman . " Afterward it occurred to me that probably Don Pablo had me ticketed and labeled even then . The Doves lived on the third floor of a fine old Spanish building in the old part ...
... street , and thought her " a very interesting young woman . " Afterward it occurred to me that probably Don Pablo had me ticketed and labeled even then . The Doves lived on the third floor of a fine old Spanish building in the old part ...
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... street . I might be stand- ing in a store ; a touch as light as a fly's wing would brush my arm . I would turn to meet the terrible begging gaze in the eyes of some child - some sin of the fathers that should never have been born ...
... street . I might be stand- ing in a store ; a touch as light as a fly's wing would brush my arm . I would turn to meet the terrible begging gaze in the eyes of some child - some sin of the fathers that should never have been born ...
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... street which hold just life enough to haul their burden these sights don't stir me any more . I look at them without love , without hate , without pity , as if they were passing shadows in a nightmare , but with what aversion ! These ...
... street which hold just life enough to haul their burden these sights don't stir me any more . I look at them without love , without hate , without pity , as if they were passing shadows in a nightmare , but with what aversion ! These ...
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... street . I was stunned . Such an unnecessary , stupid lie ! Did he expect me to believe it ? Was he showing his contempt for me or for my mind ? Months after , I mentioned the inci- dent to an American of experience . " Of course he ...
... street . I was stunned . Such an unnecessary , stupid lie ! Did he expect me to believe it ? Was he showing his contempt for me or for my mind ? Months after , I mentioned the inci- dent to an American of experience . " Of course he ...
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