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Page 14
... took the potatoes out of the dish one by one and threw one at each picture on the walls . Then without a word he sat down again and went on with his dinner . I asked my friend what effect this behaviour had on the rest of the company ...
... took the potatoes out of the dish one by one and threw one at each picture on the walls . Then without a word he sat down again and went on with his dinner . I asked my friend what effect this behaviour had on the rest of the company ...
Page 117
... took all this to - do as nat- ural . One evening when I was dining alone at my club a fellow member , but a stranger to me , was en- tertaining a guest at the next table to mine ; they were going to one of my plays and began to talk of ...
... took all this to - do as nat- ural . One evening when I was dining alone at my club a fellow member , but a stranger to me , was en- tertaining a guest at the next table to mine ; they were going to one of my plays and began to talk of ...
Page 148
... took a more modest view of their functions than they have lately done . Then they confined themselves to cutting where the author had been long - winded and disguising by their in- genuity his errors of construction ; they arranged the ...
... took a more modest view of their functions than they have lately done . Then they confined themselves to cutting where the author had been long - winded and disguising by their in- genuity his errors of construction ; they arranged the ...
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