Harper's Magazine, Volume 145Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1922 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... kind that always makes a stir in English politics and write it up for these English papers . To simplify matters , I thought it better to use one and the same inci- dent and write it up in three different ways and get paid for it three ...
... kind that always makes a stir in English politics and write it up for these English papers . To simplify matters , I thought it better to use one and the same inci- dent and write it up in three different ways and get paid for it three ...
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... kind of cheerfulness at the moment . It isn't altogether the sun and the sea air . I am enjoying an emotion that is entirely new to me ; a happy sensation I never remember hav- ing had before . " " What the devil do you mean ? " " I am ...
... kind of cheerfulness at the moment . It isn't altogether the sun and the sea air . I am enjoying an emotion that is entirely new to me ; a happy sensation I never remember hav- ing had before . " " What the devil do you mean ? " " I am ...
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... kind of ecstasy , Mrs. Dain- opoulos turned her head quickly and listened . There was a sound of some one being admitted . " So you've met your fate , anyway , ' she observed to Mr. Spokesly , yet still listening to the distant sound ...
... kind of ecstasy , Mrs. Dain- opoulos turned her head quickly and listened . There was a sound of some one being admitted . " So you've met your fate , anyway , ' she observed to Mr. Spokesly , yet still listening to the distant sound ...
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... kind of success was very hard to dismiss as pure luck . He scored every time . After the war Archie would be in a position to do as he had occasionally mentioned - buy a nice little public house and enjoy himself thoroughly . " Well ...
... kind of success was very hard to dismiss as pure luck . He scored every time . After the war Archie would be in a position to do as he had occasionally mentioned - buy a nice little public house and enjoy himself thoroughly . " Well ...
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... kind ! If I could only think- It seems to me I left it somewhere over on this side of the room . AMES . - I hardly think so . I already have looked all over this- what you were looking for ! ( Then she gives a little cry . ) Oh ! AMES ...
... kind ! If I could only think- It seems to me I left it somewhere over on this side of the room . AMES . - I hardly think so . I already have looked all over this- what you were looking for ! ( Then she gives a little cry . ) Oh ! AMES ...
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