Overland MonthlyBret Harte A. Roman and Company, 1925 |
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... father's house , Before that stormy night in March - a thousand years ( So seemed the thousand nights ) ago when life began . " Scheherazade , enter ! " heralds blared . Like a gold river she swept in to him- And found the hall a place ...
... father's house , Before that stormy night in March - a thousand years ( So seemed the thousand nights ) ago when life began . " Scheherazade , enter ! " heralds blared . Like a gold river she swept in to him- And found the hall a place ...
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... father and her good grandmother . Her father was a stern man and Lisette could not imagine that he had ever been young . She sometimes thought that her grandmother was so old that she was beginning to feel close to youth again so tender ...
... father and her good grandmother . Her father was a stern man and Lisette could not imagine that he had ever been young . She sometimes thought that her grandmother was so old that she was beginning to feel close to youth again so tender ...
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... father to son as did the crown of the king . Even today this same feeling of the sacredness of books pervades the libra- ries of Europe and no one may enter the Bibliothèque Nationale without a card of admission which is in itself a ...
... father to son as did the crown of the king . Even today this same feeling of the sacredness of books pervades the libra- ries of Europe and no one may enter the Bibliothèque Nationale without a card of admission which is in itself a ...
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... father's paralytic stroke , her ghoulish dwelling on the details of the shock . But we do not smile at the masterfully realistic portrayal of Darius ' death agony . Yet wrung as we are with pity for the tor- tured victim , we can ...
... father's paralytic stroke , her ghoulish dwelling on the details of the shock . But we do not smile at the masterfully realistic portrayal of Darius ' death agony . Yet wrung as we are with pity for the tor- tured victim , we can ...
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... father , that for all their great love for each other , Hilda and Edwin , even after marriage , remained " these twain " . But Bennett diffuses a ro- mantic glow over the chilly fact that " we are all islands shouting across seas of ...
... father , that for all their great love for each other , Hilda and Edwin , even after marriage , remained " these twain " . But Bennett diffuses a ro- mantic glow over the chilly fact that " we are all islands shouting across seas of ...
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