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... admiration of him , gave the go - cart a little push which sent it whirling down the slope from the cottage door into the middle of the road , with a velocity that was truly frightful . But the Indifferent was equal to the occasion . He ...
... admiration of him , gave the go - cart a little push which sent it whirling down the slope from the cottage door into the middle of the road , with a velocity that was truly frightful . But the Indifferent was equal to the occasion . He ...
Page 53
... companions would be proof against so much admiration . As a boy I had been brought up to " sup in public , " but my companions had had no such training . I looked at the Entomologist , but he was quite calm OF A SLEEPLESS MAN . 53.
... companions would be proof against so much admiration . As a boy I had been brought up to " sup in public , " but my companions had had no such training . I looked at the Entomologist , but he was quite calm OF A SLEEPLESS MAN . 53.
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... admiration . When I spoke to her of the beauty of the scene , she seemed pleased to think that I admired it , but said that the church was nothing to what it had been . Old as she was she could not have known it when it was perfect ...
... admiration . When I spoke to her of the beauty of the scene , she seemed pleased to think that I admired it , but said that the church was nothing to what it had been . Old as she was she could not have known it when it was perfect ...
Page 127
... pastrycooks ' shops were brilliantly lighted , and surrounded by admiring crowds as we walked through the streets on the evening of the 5th December . It is the wont of me in great persons to be modelled , for the OF A SLEEPLESS MAN . 127.
... pastrycooks ' shops were brilliantly lighted , and surrounded by admiring crowds as we walked through the streets on the evening of the 5th December . It is the wont of me in great persons to be modelled , for the OF A SLEEPLESS MAN . 127.
Page 128
... admired Napoleon in marble , I have eaten him in elecam- pane ; and Wellington was endeared to toffee long before I knew him in terra cotta . Thus fared it with Saint Nicholas and the bourrique , their poorer votaries could devour them ...
... admired Napoleon in marble , I have eaten him in elecam- pane ; and Wellington was endeared to toffee long before I knew him in terra cotta . Thus fared it with Saint Nicholas and the bourrique , their poorer votaries could devour them ...
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