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Page viii
... passion , and so the only good novel Jules Renard wrote was when the passion of self - pity and the hatred he felt for his mother charged his recollections of his unhappy childhood with venom . I surmise that he would be already ...
... passion , and so the only good novel Jules Renard wrote was when the passion of self - pity and the hatred he felt for his mother charged his recollections of his unhappy childhood with venom . I surmise that he would be already ...
Page 38
... passion of that woman , just an ordi- nary hospital patient , to have a baby , a passion so intense that she was willing to incur the frightful risk ; it seemed hard , dreadfully hard , that she had to die . The nurse told me the baby ...
... passion of that woman , just an ordi- nary hospital patient , to have a baby , a passion so intense that she was willing to incur the frightful risk ; it seemed hard , dreadfully hard , that she had to die . The nurse told me the baby ...
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... passion that reminds one of the Roman Empire of Heliogabalus ; there are reds , shrill like the berries of a holly — one thinks of Christmas in England and the snow and the good cheer and the pleasures of children — and yet by some ...
... passion that reminds one of the Roman Empire of Heliogabalus ; there are reds , shrill like the berries of a holly — one thinks of Christmas in England and the snow and the good cheer and the pleasures of children — and yet by some ...
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