Jack, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1900 - 409 pages |
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... wait while he plunges headlong , heart and soul , into the story of Jack ! What is the quality of qualities obvious even to the most superficial reader of Jack ? Note the remorseless subtlety of perception , the ironic delicacy of touch ...
... wait while he plunges headlong , heart and soul , into the story of Jack ! What is the quality of qualities obvious even to the most superficial reader of Jack ? Note the remorseless subtlety of perception , the ironic delicacy of touch ...
Page xxiv
... waits latent forever . " " Did we think victory great ? So it is - But now it seems to me , when it cannot be helped , that defeat is great , And that death and dismay are great . ” " Defeat , poverty , imprisonment , they too are great ...
... waits latent forever . " " Did we think victory great ? So it is - But now it seems to me , when it cannot be helped , that defeat is great , And that death and dismay are great . ” " Defeat , poverty , imprisonment , they too are great ...
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... with emphasis upon each word : " Moreover , at present our dormitories are all occupied ; the scholastic year is already far ad- vanced . We have been compelled to ask some of our new pupils to wait until next year ; I 8 Jack .
... with emphasis upon each word : " Moreover , at present our dormitories are all occupied ; the scholastic year is already far ad- vanced . We have been compelled to ask some of our new pupils to wait until next year ; I 8 Jack .
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Alphonse Daudet. our new pupils to wait until next year ; I shall have to ask you also to wait until that time . We may then , perhaps , be able to make room for him , but I dare promise nothing . " She understood . " Then , " she asked ...
Alphonse Daudet. our new pupils to wait until next year ; I shall have to ask you also to wait until that time . We may then , perhaps , be able to make room for him , but I dare promise nothing . " She understood . " Then , " she asked ...
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... wait a bit , wait a bit ! I think I know of a famous school that is just the one for your bu- bu - business . It is called the College no not the college - the Gymnase Moronval ; for all that , it is a College . When I was at the Saïd's ...
... wait a bit , wait a bit ! I think I know of a famous school that is just the one for your bu- bu - business . It is called the College no not the college - the Gymnase Moronval ; for all that , it is a College . When I was at the Saïd's ...
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appearance asked Avenue Montaigne beautiful Bélisaire beûh Bon ami Boulevard Haussmann carriage Cécile Champs-Élysées Charlotte charming cold Countess creature d'Argenton Dahomey Daudet dear Decostère delightful doctor door dream entered Étiolles eyes face factotum felt forest garden glance Guérigny Gymnase Moronval hand happy head heard Hirsch Jack's Kérika King of Dahomey Labassindre light listened little Jack little King little negro little tropicals looked Madame de Barancy Madame Moronval Mademoiselle Constant Mâdou mamma Monsieur Moronval Monsieur Rivals Moronval-Decostère Moronval's Mother Archambauld Moucié mulatto Nantais never night Paris passed paused poet Pointe-à-Pitre poor child pupils road Roudic Saïd seated seemed sight silence singer sleep smile solemn sort sound suddenly talk tears tell terrible things thought tion trees Vaugirard Villeneuve-Saint-Georges voice wait walk watching wife woman words wretched
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