Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 113Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1926 - American literature |
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... never voted before , instead of resting upon the support of that de- cent England which wanted above all else a peace of healing and of common sense . It is a very rare politician who can rise above politi- cal motives and memories ...
... never voted before , instead of resting upon the support of that de- cent England which wanted above all else a peace of healing and of common sense . It is a very rare politician who can rise above politi- cal motives and memories ...
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... never broke through his reserve into a useless and hopeless reference to a state of things which was manifestly none of my business ; and Frida slid around it and swooped over it so obliquely that I could always pretend I didn't ...
... never broke through his reserve into a useless and hopeless reference to a state of things which was manifestly none of my business ; and Frida slid around it and swooped over it so obliquely that I could always pretend I didn't ...
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... never touch- ing macadam . He chatted the normal amount , but never by any chance about him- self , and he had a way of abstracting himself which annoyed me at first but which I learned to accept and to pride myself on accepting , since ...
... never touch- ing macadam . He chatted the normal amount , but never by any chance about him- self , and he had a way of abstracting himself which annoyed me at first but which I learned to accept and to pride myself on accepting , since ...
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... never done when I had a more facile heart . She has become positively witch - like , long and thin- faced , with claw hands and coiled intractable hair . Unlike my plump self , she is meager about her food and I think about her money ...
... never done when I had a more facile heart . She has become positively witch - like , long and thin- faced , with claw hands and coiled intractable hair . Unlike my plump self , she is meager about her food and I think about her money ...
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... never to mind . The clerk was a chatty el- derly man . ' He's ordered his team for nine - thirty to - morrow morning , ' he said . I thanked him , pretending I had just wanted to make sure . " Next morning was a lovely Sun- day morning ...
... never to mind . The clerk was a chatty el- derly man . ' He's ordered his team for nine - thirty to - morrow morning , ' he said . I thanked him , pretending I had just wanted to make sure . " Next morning was a lovely Sun- day morning ...
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