Strange StoriesChatto & Windus, 1884 - 356 páginas |
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... thing on earth worth living for and thinking about , and the Reverend John Creedy , B.A. , had a missionary history of his own , strange enough even in these strange days of queer juxtapositions between utter savagery and advanced ...
... thing on earth worth living for and thinking about , and the Reverend John Creedy , B.A. , had a missionary history of his own , strange enough even in these strange days of queer juxtapositions between utter savagery and advanced ...
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... thing , a coal - black parson . Next day , Thursday , an almost equally unusual event occurred to Ethel Berry , for , to her great surprise , she got a little note in the morning inviting her up to a tennis party at the vicarage the ...
... thing , a coal - black parson . Next day , Thursday , an almost equally unusual event occurred to Ethel Berry , for , to her great surprise , she got a little note in the morning inviting her up to a tennis party at the vicarage the ...
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... thing which even the vicar himself would hardly have ventured to do . She knew that he was learned , too ; as a matter of fact he had taken a fair second class in Greats . at Oxford ; and he could talk delightfully of poetry and novels ...
... thing which even the vicar himself would hardly have ventured to do . She knew that he was learned , too ; as a matter of fact he had taken a fair second class in Greats . at Oxford ; and he could talk delightfully of poetry and novels ...
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... thing ? " John Creedy saw the shadow on her face , the uninten- tional dilatation of her delicate nostrils , the faint puckering at the corner of her lips , and knew with a negro's quick instinct of face - reading what it all meant ...
... thing ? " John Creedy saw the shadow on her face , the uninten- tional dilatation of her delicate nostrils , the faint puckering at the corner of her lips , and knew with a negro's quick instinct of face - reading what it all meant ...
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... thing , " he said , with a shake of his head , as he saw the West Coast mail steam slowly down Southampton Water , " and when he gets among his own people his instincts will surely get the better of him , as safe as my name is James ...
... thing , " he said , with a shake of his head , as he saw the West Coast mail steam slowly down Southampton Water , " and when he gets among his own people his instincts will surely get the better of him , as safe as my name is James ...
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