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... perhaps Incarnate Evil had left its bit of food half - cooked , and the muddy straw , where it lay last , was pressed into a hollow by Incarnate Evil's back as by a cat's . Incarnate Evil should not do these things that other people in ...
... perhaps Incarnate Evil had left its bit of food half - cooked , and the muddy straw , where it lay last , was pressed into a hollow by Incarnate Evil's back as by a cat's . Incarnate Evil should not do these things that other people in ...
Page 163
... perhaps never listen to a word they would say , all day long . But perhaps you will say that it is because the living people talk of things that are passing , and are of im- mediate interest to you , that you desire to hear them . Nay ...
... perhaps never listen to a word they would say , all day long . But perhaps you will say that it is because the living people talk of things that are passing , and are of im- mediate interest to you , that you desire to hear them . Nay ...
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... Perhaps it would be better if we never saw Bill again . It is very difficult to talk to a man when you like him so much . It is much easier to write in the sweet fantastic strain . We are so inarticulate when face to face . If Bill ...
... Perhaps it would be better if we never saw Bill again . It is very difficult to talk to a man when you like him so much . It is much easier to write in the sweet fantastic strain . We are so inarticulate when face to face . If Bill ...
Contents
ON GOING A JOURNEY William Hazlitt | 7 |
HOLIDAY John Galsworthy | 18 |
OF FRIENDSHIP Francis Bacon | 25 |
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