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Page 238
... seemed to him amazing and romantic . This was reality . And that frowzy , ugly woman with the whisky voice , she had such a splendid vitality , such a zest for life that she seemed to raise his own to some more vivid level . It really ...
... seemed to him amazing and romantic . This was reality . And that frowzy , ugly woman with the whisky voice , she had such a splendid vitality , such a zest for life that she seemed to raise his own to some more vivid level . It really ...
Page 239
... seemed endless to her and he , he had a secret wish that something would happen to delay her arrival . If he could only have a little more time ! Perhaps if he had six months he would have got over his infatuation . Already sometimes he ...
... seemed endless to her and he , he had a secret wish that something would happen to delay her arrival . If he could only have a little more time ! Perhaps if he had six months he would have got over his infatuation . Already sometimes he ...
Page 268
... seemed an age , alone he sat down and looked about him . He had not the energy to start immediately to unpack . How many of these hotel bedrooms had he known since the beginning of the war , grand or shabby , in one place and one land ...
... seemed an age , alone he sat down and looked about him . He had not the energy to start immediately to unpack . How many of these hotel bedrooms had he known since the beginning of the war , grand or shabby , in one place and one land ...
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