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He loved to walk among them at night , surrounded by the grotesques , feeling their human nature common with his own , seeing all oddities and treasuring them , seeing , also , the drawn faces , the evil faces , and the jovial faces ...
He loved to walk among them at night , surrounded by the grotesques , feeling their human nature common with his own , seeing all oddities and treasuring them , seeing , also , the drawn faces , the evil faces , and the jovial faces ...
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his own table , with those brimmingly mischievous blue eyes passing incessantly from face to face among his hearers , he related , invented , caricatured , and imitated nearly all the men he had ever known .
his own table , with those brimmingly mischievous blue eyes passing incessantly from face to face among his hearers , he related , invented , caricatured , and imitated nearly all the men he had ever known .
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And in the latest of the author's books , The Face of the Earth , it is , by way of the Chesil Bank and a North Devon Estuary , Spain . But wherever he goes Tomlinson takes the wealth of the Indies with him .
And in the latest of the author's books , The Face of the Earth , it is , by way of the Chesil Bank and a North Devon Estuary , Spain . But wherever he goes Tomlinson takes the wealth of the Indies with him .
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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