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That drew a sour look and a crack about the children , who after last 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 .
That drew a sour look and a crack about the children , who after last 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 .
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I met him first on the night of my arrival in Paphos . A furtive shuffling outside my room made me switch on the light and open the door sharply . The shape of the man in the entranceway was featureless as a mountain .
I met him first on the night of my arrival in Paphos . A furtive shuffling outside my room made me switch on the light and open the door sharply . The shape of the man in the entranceway was featureless as a mountain .
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In the black of the night a wave lifted her from sleep . Was it a cry that had wakened her ? She listened . An urgent intention tried to form itself . Only the echoes of what it was , fading , fluttered in her mind , like a cry or a ...
In the black of the night a wave lifted her from sleep . Was it a cry that had wakened her ? She listened . An urgent intention tried to form itself . Only the echoes of what it was , fading , fluttered in her mind , like a cry or a ...
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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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