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Give him the letter and tell him to return to the person who gave it to him . He is to
say that he took it to the lady and she sent it back . If the person asks him to take
another letter he is to say that it is not much good as she is packing her trunk ...
Give him the letter and tell him to return to the person who gave it to him . He is to
say that he took it to the lady and she sent it back . If the person asks him to take
another letter he is to say that it is not much good as she is packing her trunk ...
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But he had to get in touch with influential persons in all classes . ... But there was
another person on whom Ashenden had fixed as possibly useful to him and now
he said : " Have you ever heard of a woman called Anastasia Alexandrovna ...
But he had to get in touch with influential persons in all classes . ... But there was
another person on whom Ashenden had fixed as possibly useful to him and now
he said : " Have you ever heard of a woman called Anastasia Alexandrovna ...
Page 289
He said he couldn't manage to call her Anastasia Alexandrovna , it was too much
of a mouthful ; so he called her Delilah . And now she placed her inexhaustible
energy at his service and they went together to the persons who might be useful ...
He said he couldn't manage to call her Anastasia Alexandrovna , it was too much
of a mouthful ; so he called her Delilah . And now she placed her inexhaustible
energy at his service and they went together to the persons who might be useful ...
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User Review - lamour - LibraryThingThis is volume three of Maugham's collected short stories. In this volume he has put his stories that have the same protagonist, Ashendan who is recruited to move to Switzerland where he will be a ... Read full review
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User Review - jimgysin - LibraryThingIt's easy to see why this one is considered an archetype of espionage fiction. The fact that the book was first published back in the late 1920s means that some of the dialogue and narrative will ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Ashenden: Or, The British Agent Volume 5 of The collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham, 5, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Heinemann, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 1 May 2009 |
| Length | 304 pages |
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