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Page 81
... scene in which he accompanies her at the piano ; he is exercis- ing it on Edwin and Neville when he causes them to quarrel in his rooms . It was supposed in Dickens ' time that this influence could be projected through the agency of ...
... scene in which he accompanies her at the piano ; he is exercis- ing it on Edwin and Neville when he causes them to quarrel in his rooms . It was supposed in Dickens ' time that this influence could be projected through the agency of ...
Page 86
... scene , and the doctor who noted his pulse at the end of each selec- tion saw that it always ran higher then than it did after any of the other scenes . When Dolby , the man- ager of Dickens ' tours , tried to persuade him to cut down ...
... scene , and the doctor who noted his pulse at the end of each selec- tion saw that it always ran higher then than it did after any of the other scenes . When Dolby , the man- ager of Dickens ' tours , tried to persuade him to cut down ...
Page 154
... scene in Heartbreak House between Captain Shotover and Hector , when they give voice to their common antagonism toward the forces that seem to have them at their mercy : " We must win powers of life and death over them There is enmity ...
... scene in Heartbreak House between Captain Shotover and Hector , when they give voice to their common antagonism toward the forces that seem to have them at their mercy : " We must win powers of life and death over them There is enmity ...
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