The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 163William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1947 |
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... father seldom played cards , and never for money , and my mother only played for the lowest stakes . Besides , they allowed their host and hostess to win , so that their friendship — and I hold that they were genuinely attached to my father ...
... father seldom played cards , and never for money , and my mother only played for the lowest stakes . Besides , they allowed their host and hostess to win , so that their friendship — and I hold that they were genuinely attached to my father ...
Page 277
... father had a weakness for him as one of those foolish people whom in his spiritual pride he pitied and despised . It was a very good funeral from my father's point of view . He had it all well studied before we set off after the hearse ...
... father had a weakness for him as one of those foolish people whom in his spiritual pride he pitied and despised . It was a very good funeral from my father's point of view . He had it all well studied before we set off after the hearse ...
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... father was settling down for a real nice chat . I heard him say that bands were a great addition to a funeral . He put his hands in the position of a man holding a rifle at the reverse and hummed a few bars of Chopin's Funeral March . I ...
... father was settling down for a real nice chat . I heard him say that bands were a great addition to a funeral . He put his hands in the position of a man holding a rifle at the reverse and hummed a few bars of Chopin's Funeral March . I ...
Contents
STRANGE SCENE IN CHELSEA Drawing by Osbert Lancaster | 27 |
THE EARLY YEARS OF PO CHUI | 57 |
AUNT JANE | 72 |
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