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We had to hurry , for by sunset every monastery's doors are barricaded by the monks , a tradition that survives from the time when they lived in fear of robbers and had reason to suspect wanderers who asked admission by night .
We had to hurry , for by sunset every monastery's doors are barricaded by the monks , a tradition that survives from the time when they lived in fear of robbers and had reason to suspect wanderers who asked admission by night .
Page 339
I asked him about this ' Stop- ford Brooke ' swami and others who were wont to go to America and Eng- land . He had a quaint habit , my Truth - Named friend ; before answer- ing the simplest question he would screw up his eyes , lay his ...
I asked him about this ' Stop- ford Brooke ' swami and others who were wont to go to America and Eng- land . He had a quaint habit , my Truth - Named friend ; before answer- ing the simplest question he would screw up his eyes , lay his ...
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Herr Engel then asked her a question of still greater interest and moment : ' What do you think of Greta Garbo ? ' ' I do not believe , ' replied Selma Lager- löf , ' that she is what most people imagine her to be .
Herr Engel then asked her a question of still greater interest and moment : ' What do you think of Greta Garbo ? ' ' I do not believe , ' replied Selma Lager- löf , ' that she is what most people imagine her to be .
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