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Page 86
... hard to know . It is a slow business to induce them to tell you the particular thing about themselves that can be of use to you . They have the disadvantage that often you cannot look at them and put them aside , as you can a book , and ...
... hard to know . It is a slow business to induce them to tell you the particular thing about themselves that can be of use to you . They have the disadvantage that often you cannot look at them and put them aside , as you can a book , and ...
Page 91
... hard , gem - like flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was half - way through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gem - like flame , to be treated as a ...
... hard , gem - like flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was half - way through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gem - like flame , to be treated as a ...
Page 188
... hard to find a more un- satisfactory end than the one he chose . I have been blamed because I have drawn my characters from living persons , and from criticisms that I have read one might suppose that nobody had ever done this before ...
... hard to find a more un- satisfactory end than the one he chose . I have been blamed because I have drawn my characters from living persons , and from criticisms that I have read one might suppose that nobody had ever done this before ...
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