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... felt I was the luckiest of men when I managed to get a few tablets of saccharine . It sweetened my beetroot tea , and as I drank it with a burnt crust of bread I felt new strength pouring into my veins . - All our money went on barley ...
... felt I was the luckiest of men when I managed to get a few tablets of saccharine . It sweetened my beetroot tea , and as I drank it with a burnt crust of bread I felt new strength pouring into my veins . - All our money went on barley ...
Page 47
... felt cruelly hurt for France and for the French , hurt for the whole of their great culture , for Diderot and Voltaire , Hugo and Stendhal , for Zola and Corot , for Pasteur and Delacroix , for all the great Frenchmen whom none of us ...
... felt cruelly hurt for France and for the French , hurt for the whole of their great culture , for Diderot and Voltaire , Hugo and Stendhal , for Zola and Corot , for Pasteur and Delacroix , for all the great Frenchmen whom none of us ...
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... felt sure that I could not have held out even for a day without them . What , for instance , could I have used instead of the tin to fetch water from the spring that trickled from under the tamarisk bush on the cliff ? And how , without ...
... felt sure that I could not have held out even for a day without them . What , for instance , could I have used instead of the tin to fetch water from the spring that trickled from under the tamarisk bush on the cliff ? And how , without ...
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