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a It was a Stollen , a great , hot , reeking sugar - dusted Christmas cake . No German would dare arrive as a guest on Christmas Day without a Stollen , not even a poor old mother being exfiltrated out of East Berlin on her way to meet ...
a It was a Stollen , a great , hot , reeking sugar - dusted Christmas cake . No German would dare arrive as a guest on Christmas Day without a Stollen , not even a poor old mother being exfiltrated out of East Berlin on her way to meet ...
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She had just announced to the world , as though the world were to take note of it , that she was in the middle of her third gin and Italian but that after all this was Christmas . She was difficult to place , either socially or ...
She had just announced to the world , as though the world were to take note of it , that she was in the middle of her third gin and Italian but that after all this was Christmas . She was difficult to place , either socially or ...
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Also we have wished her a happy Christmas already , and that's enough excitement for one day . We'll keep her for next time you come . ” So I was to be asked again . The view from the back of the house was better than from the front .
Also we have wished her a happy Christmas already , and that's enough excitement for one day . We'll keep her for next time you come . ” So I was to be asked again . The view from the back of the house was better than from the front .
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POEMS translated by Graeme Wilson | 28 |
PRISONER by Elizabeth Jennings | 53 |
JOHN MURRAY 50 ALBEMARLE STREET LONDON WIX | 75 |
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| Title | The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 181 |
| Editors | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Publisher | Smith, Elder and Company, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Dec 2007 |
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