The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 181George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1974 |
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... 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 an only son she hadn't seen in three years . On Christmas ...
... 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 an only son she hadn't seen in three years . On Christmas ...
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... Christmas thoughts and getting up an appetite for their Christmas dinner . Were there any cars outside , Daisy , when you arrived back ? " " Not one . But they may have driven into the stables to wish Nanny a happy Christmas upstairs in ...
... Christmas thoughts and getting up an appetite for their Christmas dinner . Were there any cars outside , Daisy , when you arrived back ? " " Not one . But they may have driven into the stables to wish Nanny a happy Christmas upstairs in ...
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... 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 . It stretched the length of a ...
... 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 . It stretched the length of a ...
Contents
POEMS translated by Graeme Wilson | 28 |
PRISONER by Elizabeth Jennings | 53 |
JOHN MURRAY 50 ALBEMARLE STREET LONDON W1X | 75 |
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