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... whole I think the most interesting and consist- ently amusing talker I ever knew was Edmund Gosse . He had read a great deal , though not very carefully , it appears , and his conversation was extremely intel- ligent [ 4 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... whole I think the most interesting and consist- ently amusing talker I ever knew was Edmund Gosse . He had read a great deal , though not very carefully , it appears , and his conversation was extremely intel- ligent [ 4 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... amusing and I decided that I could write a comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to ...
... amusing and I decided that I could write a comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to ...
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... amusing dialogue , an eye for a comic situation and a flippant gaiety ; there was more in me than that , but this I put away for the time , and wrote my comedies with those sides of myself only that were useful [ 118 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... amusing dialogue , an eye for a comic situation and a flippant gaiety ; there was more in me than that , but this I put away for the time , and wrote my comedies with those sides of myself only that were useful [ 118 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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