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An old solicitor , whom I knew when I was a boy , told me that as an articled clerk he was once invited to dine with my grandfather . My grandfather carved the beef and then a servant handed him a dish of potatoes baked in their skins .
An old solicitor , whom I knew when I was a boy , told me that as an articled clerk he was once invited to dine with my grandfather . My grandfather carved the beef and then a servant handed him a dish of potatoes baked in their skins .
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I have been told that they were known in the Paris of that day as Beauty and the Beast . Her father was in the army ; he died in India and his widow , my grandmother , after squandering a considerable fortune , settled down in France to ...
I have been told that they were known in the Paris of that day as Beauty and the Beast . Her father was in the army ; he died in India and his widow , my grandmother , after squandering a considerable fortune , settled down in France to ...
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I am told that there are pianists who have a natural technique so that they can play in a manner that most executants can achieve only as the result of unremitting toil ...
I am told that there are pianists who have a natural technique so that they can play in a manner that most executants can achieve only as the result of unremitting toil ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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