The Living Age, Volume 270Living Age Company, 1911 |
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Page 16
... beauty , and with a flicker of the hands expressed her inability to describe the wonder of the thing . " Even at the pensionnat she was free to help herself to - and lose our very best hosiery , and Mademoiselle let her breakfast in bed ...
... beauty , and with a flicker of the hands expressed her inability to describe the wonder of the thing . " Even at the pensionnat she was free to help herself to - and lose our very best hosiery , and Mademoiselle let her breakfast in bed ...
Page 18
... beauty ? He was mad , it is true , or at any rate they thought him so , but to stand in true relations with men in an age of polite dissimulation is worth a fit of lunacy . You always prefer to know the truth , don't you , Norah ? " He ...
... beauty ? He was mad , it is true , or at any rate they thought him so , but to stand in true relations with men in an age of polite dissimulation is worth a fit of lunacy . You always prefer to know the truth , don't you , Norah ? " He ...
Page 52
... beauty Of making worldly interest Subordinate to sense of duty ? Even in the conventions of the stage itself Gilbert found opportunity for satirical treatment , often childishly naïve ; a chorus stealthily pursuing its victim sings ...
... beauty Of making worldly interest Subordinate to sense of duty ? Even in the conventions of the stage itself Gilbert found opportunity for satirical treatment , often childishly naïve ; a chorus stealthily pursuing its victim sings ...
Page 62
... beauty . It is not written with any intention of sup- planting or even of supplementing the guide - books . It is simply a record of personal impressions and experiences during a six weeks journey down the Rhone from Lyons , -made up in ...
... beauty . It is not written with any intention of sup- planting or even of supplementing the guide - books . It is simply a record of personal impressions and experiences during a six weeks journey down the Rhone from Lyons , -made up in ...
Page 63
... beauty and a great capacity for ac- complishing what she sets her mind to are her definite assets . From that point the story follows the development of a nature in which ambition , coldness and instinctive kindness of heart are ...
... beauty and a great capacity for ac- complishing what she sets her mind to are her definite assets . From that point the story follows the development of a nature in which ambition , coldness and instinctive kindness of heart are ...
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