The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 142Atlantic Monthly Company, 1928 - American essays |
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Page 9
... beautiful daughter , but he robs me of my sub- stance as well ! See ! The very clothes on his back - it was I who bought them , for I was ashamed , knowing that without my help he would come naked to the wedding ! And now he takes my ...
... beautiful daughter , but he robs me of my sub- stance as well ! See ! The very clothes on his back - it was I who bought them , for I was ashamed , knowing that without my help he would come naked to the wedding ! And now he takes my ...
Page 10
... beautiful stockings , six yards of the finest cloth , which cost me five shillings a yard [ I had sold it to him at ninepence ] -all is gone , thrown away on this loose woman ! ' Thus went the Puka - Puka ceremony of ' making big . ' No ...
... beautiful stockings , six yards of the finest cloth , which cost me five shillings a yard [ I had sold it to him at ninepence ] -all is gone , thrown away on this loose woman ! ' Thus went the Puka - Puka ceremony of ' making big . ' No ...
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... beautiful copper - mahogany skin , perfectly tempered to this tropic sun and air , infinitely more modest and sane than his hopeless attempts at con- ventional dress . Clad as I was only in abbreviated swimming trunks , my fair skin ...
... beautiful copper - mahogany skin , perfectly tempered to this tropic sun and air , infinitely more modest and sane than his hopeless attempts at con- ventional dress . Clad as I was only in abbreviated swimming trunks , my fair skin ...
Page 25
... beautiful began to happen . Balanced on its contracted base , it gradually commenced to flatten and to grip the bottom with long , bulbous furrows . The summit opened slowly , like the slow - motion picture of an ex- panding flower ...
... beautiful began to happen . Balanced on its contracted base , it gradually commenced to flatten and to grip the bottom with long , bulbous furrows . The summit opened slowly , like the slow - motion picture of an ex- panding flower ...
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... beautiful gate blackened and ruined , the fresco of the Virgin on its front defaced by many cannon shot , the heads and arms of the sculptured saints on either side wanting . The lodge of the villa adjoining , belonging to Car- dinal ...
... beautiful gate blackened and ruined , the fresco of the Virgin on its front defaced by many cannon shot , the heads and arms of the sculptured saints on either side wanting . The lodge of the villa adjoining , belonging to Car- dinal ...
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