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... asked me to try to persuade Mrs X to send the boy to a mental home , as he and the rest of the family thought that his mother was ruining her life by immuring herself with the child . They had tried to argue with her , but she would not ...
... asked me to try to persuade Mrs X to send the boy to a mental home , as he and the rest of the family thought that his mother was ruining her life by immuring herself with the child . They had tried to argue with her , but she would not ...
Page 52
... asked to interfere in a case of this sort . I once had a secretary who came to me and asked me to speak to her sister just as Percy had asked me to speak to his mother . The sister had a very highly paid post as buyer of dresses for one ...
... asked to interfere in a case of this sort . I once had a secretary who came to me and asked me to speak to her sister just as Percy had asked me to speak to his mother . The sister had a very highly paid post as buyer of dresses for one ...
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... asked Elizabeth to dinner with us in London and later went to see her in Brighton - and so we got to know Octavia . Elizabeth was an even more remarkable woman than Octavia . She was born in Kentucky in 1862 , a young lady belonging to ...
... asked Elizabeth to dinner with us in London and later went to see her in Brighton - and so we got to know Octavia . Elizabeth was an even more remarkable woman than Octavia . She was born in Kentucky in 1862 , a young lady belonging to ...
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