Taken Alive: And Other Stories : with an AutobiographyDodd, Mead,, 1889 - 375 pages |
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... COMING EVENTS 124 X. " YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND " " 133 XI . MR . KEMBLE'S APPEAL . 140 XII . " YOU MUST REMEMBER " 146 XIII . " I'M HELEN " XIV . " FORWARD ! COMPANY A " 154 164 QUEEN OF SPADES · AN UNEXPECTED RESULT A CHRISTMAS -
... COMING EVENTS 124 X. " YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND " " 133 XI . MR . KEMBLE'S APPEAL . 140 XII . " YOU MUST REMEMBER " 146 XIII . " I'M HELEN " XIV . " FORWARD ! COMPANY A " 154 164 QUEEN OF SPADES · AN UNEXPECTED RESULT A CHRISTMAS -
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... remember when she was not an invalid . Such literary tendencies as I have are derived from her , but I do not possess a tithe of her intellectual power . Her story - books in her youth were the classics ; and when she was but twelve ...
... remember when she was not an invalid . Such literary tendencies as I have are derived from her , but I do not possess a tithe of her intellectual power . Her story - books in her youth were the classics ; and when she was but twelve ...
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... remember , when a boy , of reading to her a chapter from Motley's " Dutch Republic , " and of witnessing in her flushed cheeks and sparkling black eyes proof of an excitement all too great for one in her frail health . She had the ...
... remember , when a boy , of reading to her a chapter from Motley's " Dutch Republic , " and of witnessing in her flushed cheeks and sparkling black eyes proof of an excitement all too great for one in her frail health . She had the ...
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... remember , that the vague outlines of my first story , " Barriers Burned Away , ” be- gan to take form in my mind . I soon returned home , and began to dream and write , giving during the following year such hours as could be withdrawn ...
... remember , that the vague outlines of my first story , " Barriers Burned Away , ” be- gan to take form in my mind . I soon returned home , and began to dream and write , giving during the following year such hours as could be withdrawn ...
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... remember the literary giants of other days and of his own time , and smile at the airs of the comparatively little man . On the other hand , no self - respecting writer should ape the false deprecating " umbleness " of Uriah Heep . In ...
... remember the literary giants of other days and of his own time , and smile at the airs of the comparatively little man . On the other hand , no self - respecting writer should ape the false deprecating " umbleness " of Uriah Heep . In ...
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