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Page 447
... wanted Fish to send Motley a cablegram , telling him to get out of the embassy forthwith . Fish said that such a procedure would not be dignified , but Grant wanted it done , anyway . It was not done ; Fish finally persuaded him to let ...
... wanted Fish to send Motley a cablegram , telling him to get out of the embassy forthwith . Fish said that such a procedure would not be dignified , but Grant wanted it done , anyway . It was not done ; Fish finally persuaded him to let ...
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... wanted to play a star part in the financial world , yet he had absolutely no capacity for commercial or financial operations . But he thought he had - and his delusion was not as strange as it seems . It is common among men who have had ...
... wanted to play a star part in the financial world , yet he had absolutely no capacity for commercial or financial operations . But he thought he had - and his delusion was not as strange as it seems . It is common among men who have had ...
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... wanted the family to take as a gift . They finally took it as a loan . It was on these two contributions that the General and Mrs. Grant lived for some time . Mr. Vanderbilt said nothing about his one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ...
... wanted the family to take as a gift . They finally took it as a loan . It was on these two contributions that the General and Mrs. Grant lived for some time . Mr. Vanderbilt said nothing about his one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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