The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 181George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1974 |
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... night couldn't be held back until eight , when I said I hoped to be home . There wasn't any answer to that and I didn't try to make one . Pat went upstairs and I mixed a drink and fell asleep on the sofa before I tasted it . The alarm ...
... night couldn't be held back until eight , when I said I hoped to be home . There wasn't any answer to that and I didn't try to make one . Pat went upstairs and I mixed a drink and fell asleep on the sofa before I tasted it . The alarm ...
Page 30
... night's naïveté had be- queathed illegitimate children . The strong - man was generally there to scowl at this , shaking his massive , globular head in denunciation . The idea of anything sexual nauseated him . He would absent ...
... night's naïveté had be- queathed illegitimate children . The strong - man was generally there to scowl at this , shaking his massive , globular head in denunciation . The idea of anything sexual nauseated him . He would absent ...
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... night and see that the guards were awake : and my boots would have been frozen by then so that my numb fingers could have done nothing with them . I took a swig of my rum - ration . The cold gave me a kind of lightheadedness that seemed ...
... night and see that the guards were awake : and my boots would have been frozen by then so that my numb fingers could have done nothing with them . I took a swig of my rum - ration . The cold gave me a kind of lightheadedness that seemed ...
Contents
POEMS translated by Graeme Wilson | 28 |
PRISONER by Elizabeth Jennings | 53 |
JOHN MURRAY 50 ALBEMARLE STREET LONDON W1X | 70 |
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