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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 .
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 .
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... 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 .
... 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 ...
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 ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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