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... figure of fun to the ladies who flock to her balls and routs ; a source of endless expense to her weak - willed ... figure of fun , but we are never deluded into believing that she is only a figure of fun . She is also a suffering woman ...
... figure of fun to the ladies who flock to her balls and routs ; a source of endless expense to her weak - willed ... figure of fun , but we are never deluded into believing that she is only a figure of fun . She is also a suffering woman ...
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... figure ; yet , like Dorothea , he impresses us as a being capable of suffering tragedy , and we are moved to compassion by the sense of waste that informs his being . In the shape of the novel as a whole , the figure of Dorothea is ...
... figure ; yet , like Dorothea , he impresses us as a being capable of suffering tragedy , and we are moved to compassion by the sense of waste that informs his being . In the shape of the novel as a whole , the figure of Dorothea is ...
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... figure of Mrs Moore , the old English lady on whom India has such a strange effect and who becomes , after she ... figure , older than English and Indian and the strife between them . When Forster attempted through a cognate figure , Mrs ...
... figure of Mrs Moore , the old English lady on whom India has such a strange effect and who becomes , after she ... figure , older than English and Indian and the strife between them . When Forster attempted through a cognate figure , Mrs ...
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