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Page 106
... talk him , if possible , into a better mood . James Stephens was one of those Irish Irishmen , the stage Irishman who never stops talking with the soft brogue which makes one think des- pairingly of the indomitable soft rain falling ...
... talk him , if possible , into a better mood . James Stephens was one of those Irish Irishmen , the stage Irishman who never stops talking with the soft brogue which makes one think des- pairingly of the indomitable soft rain falling ...
Page 150
... talk of his school , of Greece , of his past as if nothing had happened in between : a queer psychological fact in him — this dwelling on the past , when there's his present and his future all round him : D. C. to wit and Karin coming ...
... talk of his school , of Greece , of his past as if nothing had happened in between : a queer psychological fact in him — this dwelling on the past , when there's his present and his future all round him : D. C. to wit and Karin coming ...
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... talk politics , the problems of India and Ceylon ; but it was pretty vague and somehow or other we slipped into talking about life and books rather than the fall of empire and empires . After about half an hour I got up to go and Nehru ...
... talk politics , the problems of India and Ceylon ; but it was pretty vague and somehow or other we slipped into talking about life and books rather than the fall of empire and empires . After about half an hour I got up to go and Nehru ...
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