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I meant her only to make a note of mistakes in spelling that the typist might have made and point out errors occasioned by a handwriting that is not always easy to decipher . But she was a con- scientious young person and she took me ...
I meant her only to make a note of mistakes in spelling that the typist might have made and point out errors occasioned by a handwriting that is not always easy to decipher . But she was a con- scientious young person and she took me ...
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that they were remarkable , so now I took all this to - do as natural . One evening when I was dining alone at my club a fellow member , but a stranger to me , was enter- taining a guest at the next table to mine ; they were going to ...
that they were remarkable , so now I took all this to - do as natural . One evening when I was dining alone at my club a fellow member , but a stranger to me , was enter- taining a guest at the next table to mine ; they were going to ...
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I took a larger number of persons than I had ever sought to cope with before and devised four or five independent stories . They were attached to one another by a very thin thread , an elderly woman who knew at least one person in each ...
I took a larger number of persons than I had ever sought to cope with before and devised four or five independent stories . They were attached to one another by a very thin thread , an elderly woman who knew at least one person in each ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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