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Page 92
... tell you . 27 YOUNG persons , who are anxious to write , sometimes pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity ...
... tell you . 27 YOUNG persons , who are anxious to write , sometimes pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity ...
Page 97
... tell you it's a Roman copy , and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gem - like flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was half - way through ...
... tell you it's a Roman copy , and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gem - like flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was half - way through ...
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... tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the sophisticated . I have read a good many books on the art of ...
... tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the sophisticated . I have read a good many books on the art of ...
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