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... at a bridge or an hotel and supplied a series of sketches or brief biographies of those assembled at the spot . He studied their manners , their foibles ; laughed , sighed , and ridiculed ; and passed on to amusing parody of Ivanhoe ...
... at a bridge or an hotel and supplied a series of sketches or brief biographies of those assembled at the spot . He studied their manners , their foibles ; laughed , sighed , and ridiculed ; and passed on to amusing parody of Ivanhoe ...
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They did not shine , any of them , in the arts of solvency ; and the Doctor must have been an amusing , exasperating character , with all a simpleton's pride in his own financial skill . He was tremendously popular .
They did not shine , any of them , in the arts of solvency ; and the Doctor must have been an amusing , exasperating character , with all a simpleton's pride in his own financial skill . He was tremendously popular .
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He had , however , an amusing trick of Frenchifying English slang terms ; and would say of a book he did not admire that it was " putride ” . He often ejaculated " In effect I 129 THE GIFT OF TONGUES.
He had , however , an amusing trick of Frenchifying English slang terms ; and would say of a book he did not admire that it was " putride ” . He often ejaculated " In effect I 129 THE GIFT OF TONGUES.
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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| Title | Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and Magog |
| Author | Frank Swinnerton |
| Publisher | Hutchinson, 1952 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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