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Page 133
... English and American stores , its Chinese shops , has a subtly French character . It has an engaging trimness , and it is leisurely . You feel that peo- ple live there , and the desire for gain is not quite so much in evidence as in the ...
... English and American stores , its Chinese shops , has a subtly French character . It has an engaging trimness , and it is leisurely . You feel that peo- ple live there , and the desire for gain is not quite so much in evidence as in the ...
Page 154
... English and Ameri- can , between whom the differences of language are very small , there can be no real understanding . Probably people are best able to know one another when their early years and their education have been similar . It ...
... English and Ameri- can , between whom the differences of language are very small , there can be no real understanding . Probably people are best able to know one another when their early years and their education have been similar . It ...
Page 326
... English excite their ridicule rather than their sympathy . They are impatient with the courage of the English during the bombing of Lon- don ; their discomfiture in Greece , a discomfiture expected by all who took part in the expedition ...
... English excite their ridicule rather than their sympathy . They are impatient with the courage of the English during the bombing of Lon- don ; their discomfiture in Greece , a discomfiture expected by all who took part in the expedition ...
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