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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 filled the four neat pages of foolscap
...
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 filled the four neat pages of foolscap
...
Page 118
I was 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 shrug my ...
I was 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 shrug my ...
Page 218
It seems to have escaped the attention of those who have been taken by these
curious 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 ...
It seems to have escaped the attention of those who have been taken by these
curious 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 ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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