Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 102Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1921 - American literature |
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... laughed as I wondered : " What is this story - book errand ? Ho , for the buried treasure ! I'll fit up a fleet , out of the six hundred dollars I have in the savings - bank , and find the pirates ' skellingtons . ' Important pa- pers ...
... laughed as I wondered : " What is this story - book errand ? Ho , for the buried treasure ! I'll fit up a fleet , out of the six hundred dollars I have in the savings - bank , and find the pirates ' skellingtons . ' Important pa- pers ...
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... laughed at him out loud , and she never gave him away to any one else , not even to her children . She belonged to a generation of women who kept mar- ried unhappiness to themselves and did not think it a matter of great importance ...
... laughed at him out loud , and she never gave him away to any one else , not even to her children . She belonged to a generation of women who kept mar- ried unhappiness to themselves and did not think it a matter of great importance ...
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... laughed at her outright . His superior glance placed her . " The trouble with you is that you are a Russian Jewess . You want the impossible . " Sophie Sapinsky's mouth quivered at the corners , and her teeth bit into the lower lip to ...
... laughed at her outright . His superior glance placed her . " The trouble with you is that you are a Russian Jewess . You want the impossible . " Sophie Sapinsky's mouth quivered at the corners , and her teeth bit into the lower lip to ...
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... and looked through her bag for some- thing to cover an ugly break in the plaster . She could find nothing but the page torn from the college cata- logue . He laughed , and it was an apprecia- the door 68 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
... and looked through her bag for some- thing to cover an ugly break in the plaster . She could find nothing but the page torn from the college cata- logue . He laughed , and it was an apprecia- the door 68 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
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... laughed up at her , mockingly . Perhaps she was not a writer , after all . Writers never started stories in this way . Her eyes wandered over to the bed , a hard , meager cot . " I must remember to fix the leg , or it will tip to ...
... laughed up at her , mockingly . Perhaps she was not a writer , after all . Writers never started stories in this way . Her eyes wandered over to the bed , a hard , meager cot . " I must remember to fix the leg , or it will tip to ...
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