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Page 20
... taken and so sat me down to examine them . I suppose the young woman had taken a course at a secretarial college and she had gone through my novel in the same methodical way as her masters had gone through her essays . The remarks that ...
... taken and so sat me down to examine them . I suppose the young woman had taken a course at a secretarial college and she had gone through my novel in the same methodical way as her masters had gone through her essays . The remarks that ...
Page 118
... 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 only ...
... 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 only ...
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... taken by these curi- ous experiments that the matter treated of in the books in which they are made use of is of an extreme triviality . It almost looks as though their authors had been driven to these contrivances by an uneasy ...
... taken by these curi- ous experiments that the matter treated of in the books in which they are made use of is of an extreme triviality . It almost looks as though their authors had been driven to these contrivances by an uneasy ...
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