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Page 105
... exciting . At last the dressmakers filter through the fireproof door and resume their seats , the representatives of rival firms at a haughty distance from one another , and the stage manager puts his head round the curtain . " All ...
... exciting . At last the dressmakers filter through the fireproof door and resume their seats , the representatives of rival firms at a haughty distance from one another , and the stage manager puts his head round the curtain . " All ...
Page 143
... exciting composers to write for it and producing an elaborate school of performers , succumbed when musical instruments were invented that produced more beautifully the peculiar effects it sought ; and there is no reason why prose drama ...
... exciting composers to write for it and producing an elaborate school of performers , succumbed when musical instruments were invented that produced more beautifully the peculiar effects it sought ; and there is no reason why prose drama ...
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... exciting ; but beneath it was narrow . Now I entered a new world , and all the instinct in me of a novelist went out with exhilaration to absorb the novelty . It was not only the beauty of the islands that took me , Herman Melville and ...
... exciting ; but beneath it was narrow . Now I entered a new world , and all the instinct in me of a novelist went out with exhilaration to absorb the novelty . It was not only the beauty of the islands that took me , Herman Melville and ...
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