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Page 372
... feeling very sorry about never having had any works fitted into their fire - engines . " Up the river there were falls which could be harnessed at a cost of £ 000,000 . This would involve a loan of a like amount , which would be secured ...
... feeling very sorry about never having had any works fitted into their fire - engines . " Up the river there were falls which could be harnessed at a cost of £ 000,000 . This would involve a loan of a like amount , which would be secured ...
Page 374
... feel that the events recorded must really have occurred in those places , whereas a quite different impression ( or so he fan- cied ) would be left on the mind if one merely wrote Pittsburg and Chicago and New York . He began to think ...
... feel that the events recorded must really have occurred in those places , whereas a quite different impression ( or so he fan- cied ) would be left on the mind if one merely wrote Pittsburg and Chicago and New York . He began to think ...
Page 375
... feel that no one had on his arm , or could have , he believed , at the doors of theatres and restaurants , a woman so alluring , so provocative to the glances of other men ! How well , too , his business had song . Both well ...
... feel that no one had on his arm , or could have , he believed , at the doors of theatres and restaurants , a woman so alluring , so provocative to the glances of other men ! How well , too , his business had song . Both well ...
Page 381
... feeling that his own political activities or slack- ness have had something to do with bringing about the unhappy condition of affairs , and nearly everybody realises that as far as Parliament is concerned very little will be or can be ...
... feeling that his own political activities or slack- ness have had something to do with bringing about the unhappy condition of affairs , and nearly everybody realises that as far as Parliament is concerned very little will be or can be ...
Page 385
... feeling in New York and Glasgow . It then occurred to me to make him a fellow- countryman , as nobody is supposed to worry about the feelings of the English ; but it is difficult for melodrama audi- ences to credit an Englishman with ...
... feeling in New York and Glasgow . It then occurred to me to make him a fellow- countryman , as nobody is supposed to worry about the feelings of the English ; but it is difficult for melodrama audi- ences to credit an Englishman with ...
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