A Girl in Winter: A NovelThe story of a fateful winter day in the life of a European woman who has fled to England during WW II. |
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Page 156
... trying to forget her embarrassing be- haviour when she had been trying to coax him out into a non - existent open . That made her blush deeply , and was something she would never tell her friends . But what was she going to tell them ...
... trying to forget her embarrassing be- haviour when she had been trying to coax him out into a non - existent open . That made her blush deeply , and was something she would never tell her friends . But what was she going to tell them ...
Page 187
... trying to break into the meaning . Accustomed to grasping any passage at once , she was baulked . Then she tried reading it slowly , sentence by sentence . " My dear Veronica , ( it ran ) " I received your letter this morning . " You ...
... trying to break into the meaning . Accustomed to grasping any passage at once , she was baulked . Then she tried reading it slowly , sentence by sentence . " My dear Veronica , ( it ran ) " I received your letter this morning . " You ...
Page 197
... trying to harm her . It's just impossible to make her see reason , be- cause she doesn't know what she's saying or doing . Once I was ill for a week and we had a nurse in . We had to , you see . And she tried to give the nurse all sorts ...
... trying to harm her . It's just impossible to make her see reason , be- cause she doesn't know what she's saying or doing . Once I was ill for a week and we had a nurse in . We had to , you see . And she tried to give the nurse all sorts ...
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