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Page 38
... seemed to weigh with her . The operation appeared to go very well and Dr. C's face beamed when he extracted the baby . This morning I was in the ward and asked one of the nurses how she was getting on . She told me she'd died in the ...
... seemed to weigh with her . The operation appeared to go very well and Dr. C's face beamed when he extracted the baby . This morning I was in the ward and asked one of the nurses how she was getting on . She told me she'd died in the ...
Page 46
... seemed a task impossible , and all power of flight seemed to abandon me . It was a scene so ordered and arranged that it made me feel that my life cast amid such surroundings could never escape its thraldom . The past centuries of ...
... seemed a task impossible , and all power of flight seemed to abandon me . It was a scene so ordered and arranged that it made me feel that my life cast amid such surroundings could never escape its thraldom . The past centuries of ...
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... seemed to have no humour , but a lively and rather boyish sense of fun . It appeared that one of his A.D.C.s was a flirta- tious youth and women were in the habit of ringing him up on the telephone which stood on Kerensky's desk . It ...
... seemed to have no humour , but a lively and rather boyish sense of fun . It appeared that one of his A.D.C.s was a flirta- tious youth and women were in the habit of ringing him up on the telephone which stood on Kerensky's desk . It ...
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