Ashenden: Or: The British Agent |
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... English than the English . He was a tall , thin fellow , in well - cut clothes , with a close - cropped Prussian head , and that peculiar bend of the body as though he were just about to bow to a royalty that you feel , rather than see ...
... English than the English . He was a tall , thin fellow , in well - cut clothes , with a close - cropped Prussian head , and that peculiar bend of the body as though he were just about to bow to a royalty that you feel , rather than see ...
Page 114
... English ; it was good English , but not an Englishman's English , flowery and rather grandiloquent ; I wondered who was writing them . They seemed to be just ordinary love - letters , but they were by way of being rather hot stuff . It ...
... English ; it was good English , but not an Englishman's English , flowery and rather grandiloquent ; I wondered who was writing them . They seemed to be just ordinary love - letters , but they were by way of being rather hot stuff . It ...
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... English , by the way , or Amer- ican ? " " English , " said Ashenden . Ashenden was by nature a very shy person , and he had in vain tried to cure himself of a failing that at his age was unseemly , but on occasion he knew how to make ...
... English , by the way , or Amer- ican ? " " English , " said Ashenden . Ashenden was by nature a very shy person , and he had in vain tried to cure himself of a failing that at his age was unseemly , but on occasion he knew how to make ...
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