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... write you a better book myself . " Our mother laughed at the idea as at the height of absurdity - he who disliked writing even a letter , that he should write a book ! He persisted in his declaration , however , and almost immediately ...
... write you a better book myself . " Our mother laughed at the idea as at the height of absurdity - he who disliked writing even a letter , that he should write a book ! He persisted in his declaration , however , and almost immediately ...
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... write your book ! " for Hawthorne had been bemoaning himself , for some time back , at not having leisure to write down a story that had long been weighing on his mind . He smiled , and remarked that it would be agreeable to know where ...
... write your book ! " for Hawthorne had been bemoaning himself , for some time back , at not having leisure to write down a story that had long been weighing on his mind . He smiled , and remarked that it would be agreeable to know where ...
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... write love - stories in Japan . But who are the women of these love - stories ? Dancing - girls . " If one must write stories about the passion 30 of sex , let him at least not write such things about wives and daughters of hon- est men ...
... write love - stories in Japan . But who are the women of these love - stories ? Dancing - girls . " If one must write stories about the passion 30 of sex , let him at least not write such things about wives and daughters of hon- est men ...
Contents
The Settlement of Virginia | 4 |
The SmithPocahontas Legend | 10 |
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS 17931835 | 24 |
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