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  1. 'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house,'
  2. When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below m…
  3. He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
  4. 'I have been here before,' I said; I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June, whe…
  5. News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
  6. But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I sho…
  7. Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
  8. '...Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the f…

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