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... passion , and so the only good novel Jules Renard wrote was when the passion of self - pity and the hatred he felt for his mother charged his recollections of his unhappy childhood with venom . I surmise that he would be already ...
... passion , and so the only good novel Jules Renard wrote was when the passion of self - pity and the hatred he felt for his mother charged his recollections of his unhappy childhood with venom . I surmise that he would be already ...
Page 38
... passion of that woman , just an ordi- nary hospital patient , to have a baby , a passion so intense that she was willing to incur the frightful risk ; it seemed hard , dreadfully hard , that she had to die . The nurse told me the baby ...
... passion of that woman , just an ordi- nary hospital patient , to have a baby , a passion so intense that she was willing to incur the frightful risk ; it seemed hard , dreadfully hard , that she had to die . The nurse told me the baby ...
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... passion- ately seek it , I do not know . I only know that it imports me urgently to go there , and that when at last I slip through its gates , happiness awaits me . A Lines . I could not bear the thought that I should ever lose you Or ...
... passion- ately seek it , I do not know . I only know that it imports me urgently to go there , and that when at last I slip through its gates , happiness awaits me . A Lines . I could not bear the thought that I should ever lose you Or ...
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