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... hard to breathe that dead , heavily scented atmosphere and sit in those hushed rooms in which it was indecorous to speak above a whisper . But I would not listen to my common sense . I persuaded myself that this was the height of ...
... hard to breathe that dead , heavily scented atmosphere and sit in those hushed rooms in which it was indecorous to speak above a whisper . But I would not listen to my common sense . I persuaded myself that this was the height of ...
Page 99
... hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gemlike flame , to be treated as a philistine who ...
... hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gemlike flame , to be treated as a philistine who ...
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... hard one . I am not speak- ing now of the young women who go on the stage because they have a pretty face and if good looks were a qualification for typists might just as well have gone into an office , or of the young men who do so ...
... hard one . I am not speak- ing now of the young women who go on the stage because they have a pretty face and if good looks were a qualification for typists might just as well have gone into an office , or of the young men who do so ...
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