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Page 97
... chance of finding a cab ; but the sky was starry . It was a summer night and the air was still . The silence walked beside them like the ghost of a dead man . When they neared the station the houses seemed on a sudden to take on a ...
... chance of finding a cab ; but the sky was starry . It was a summer night and the air was still . The silence walked beside them like the ghost of a dead man . When they neared the station the houses seemed on a sudden to take on a ...
Page 154
... chance of earning money without any difficulty . My firm stopped sending me into Germany at the beginning of the war , but I learned what I could from the other travellers . I kept my ears open in restaurants and beer - cellars , and I ...
... chance of earning money without any difficulty . My firm stopped sending me into Germany at the beginning of the war , but I learned what I could from the other travellers . I kept my ears open in restaurants and beer - cellars , and I ...
Page 219
... chance ran over and put up at a little hotel in the Latin Quarter , where he could rub shoulders with painters and writers . As is the habit with gentry of that sort they patronised him a little because he was nothing but a diplomat and ...
... chance ran over and put up at a little hotel in the Latin Quarter , where he could rub shoulders with painters and writers . As is the habit with gentry of that sort they patronised him a little because he was nothing but a diplomat and ...
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