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... French nurses and I had been sent to a French school for children . My knowledge of English must have been slight . I have been told that on one occasion , seeing a horse out of the window of a railway carriage , I cried : " Regardez ...
... French nurses and I had been sent to a French school for children . My knowledge of English must have been slight . I have been told that on one occasion , seeing a horse out of the window of a railway carriage , I cried : " Regardez ...
Page 62
... French classics , a couple of scientific works and a play of Ibsen's . I was indeed the industrious ap- prentice . During the time I was at St Thomas's Hospital I went systematically through English , French , Italian and Latin ...
... French classics , a couple of scientific works and a play of Ibsen's . I was indeed the industrious ap- prentice . During the time I was at St Thomas's Hospital I went systematically through English , French , Italian and Latin ...
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... French . For French is the common language of educated men and it is certainly convenient to speak it well enough to be able to treat of any subject of discourse that may arise . It has a great literature ; other countries , with the ...
... French . For French is the common language of educated men and it is certainly convenient to speak it well enough to be able to treat of any subject of discourse that may arise . It has a great literature ; other countries , with the ...
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