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Page 18
... death , her maid became my nurse . I had till then had French nurses and I had been sent to a French school for children . My knowl- edge of English must have been slight . I have been told that on one occasion , seeing a horse out of ...
... death , her maid became my nurse . I had till then had French nurses and I had been sent to a French school for children . My knowl- edge of English must have been slight . I have been told that on one occasion , seeing a horse out of ...
Page 220
... death finishes all our stories ; but even if it were it would not be a good argument . For the novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to suit his own purposes . Just as the ...
... death finishes all our stories ; but even if it were it would not be a good argument . For the novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to suit his own purposes . Just as the ...
Page 291
... death so that he might realize those sides of himself which he felt that in his life he had not had time to develop ... death . It is unnecessary to dwell upon it , but it is foolish , as so many do , to shrink from all con- sideration ...
... death so that he might realize those sides of himself which he felt that in his life he had not had time to develop ... death . It is unnecessary to dwell upon it , but it is foolish , as so many do , to shrink from all con- sideration ...
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