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I must confess that at the first glance I was a trifle vexed ; but then I thought that it would be silly of me not to profit , if I could , by the trouble she had taken and so sat me down to examine them . I suppose the young woman had ...
I must confess that at the first glance I was a trifle vexed ; but then I thought that it would be silly of me not to profit , if I could , by the trouble she had taken and so sat me down to examine them . I suppose the young woman had ...
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I have not on the whole taken people at their face value . I do not know if this coolness of scrutiny has been inherited from my fathers ; they could hardly have been successful lawyers if they had not pos- sessed a shrewdness that ...
I have not on the whole taken people at their face value . I do not know if this coolness of scrutiny has been inherited from my fathers ; they could hardly have been successful lawyers if they had not pos- sessed a shrewdness that ...
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I was taken aback and a trifle mortified , but I bore my disgrace with fortitude , for I knew it was not the end of the story . I had desired a certain end and had taken what I thought were the only possible means to attain it ; I could ...
I was taken aback and a trifle mortified , but I bore my disgrace with fortitude , for I knew it was not the end of the story . I had desired a certain end and had taken what I thought were the only possible means to attain it ; I could ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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