The Second Honeymoon

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Grosset & Dunlap, 1921 - 261 sider
 

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Side 247 - ... with his elbows on the table and his head in his hands, outwitted and overwhelmed].
Side 133 - He dropped into a chair, and hid his face in his hands, while his wife soothed him with loving excuses for what he had done, with tender protests against the exaggerations of his remorse. She said that he had done the only thing he could do ; that Lily wished it, and that she never had blamed him.
Side 171 - ... pause he passed on, without committing himself to any definite observation; yet there seems to have been a meaning in the ceremony, for he successively repeated it in the case of every dignitary congregated at the eastern side, and finally of the ordinary members. When it came to the turn of Carbuccia, he would have given ten years of his life to have been at the Galleys rather than Calcutta, but he contrived to pull through, without, however, creating a...
Side 116 - You" There are so many things I want to say to you I am so afraid.
Side 121 - For a moment he could think of nothing to say; he had only told the story in order to soften her towards Jimmy, and in a measure he had succeeded.
Side 17 - I was going to walk, but if you will be so kind as to give me a lift.
Side 224 - Gladys did not answer at once, and when she spoke it was in a queer, strangled voice: "Or perhaps I am protecting you—from her!
Side 188 - You don't know what you are talking about; you don't understand that he cares nothing about me—that he would be glad if I were dead and out of the way.
Side 121 - I don't know how to thank you for being so kind to me,
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