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Page 14
He rose in his chair at the head of the table and 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 ...
He rose in his chair at the head of the table and 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 ...
Page 117
... surprised, and just as in my journeys I have accepted the most curious sights
and the most novel circumstances as perfectly ordinary, so that I have had to
force myself to notice that they were remarkable, so now I took all this to-do as
natural.
... surprised, and just as in my journeys I have accepted the most curious sights
and the most novel circumstances as perfectly ordinary, so that I have had to
force myself to notice that they were remarkable, so now I took all this to-do as
natural.
Page 148
When I first began to write for the stage, directors 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 ingenuity
his ...
When I first began to write for the stage, directors 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 ingenuity
his ...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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