Downhill is EasierAngus and Robertson Limited, 1945 - 228 pages |
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Page 29
... knew she wasn't crying with disappointment over the house , all the same . I knew she was crying at the thought of some of the places I'd had to live in , and at all the things she had in her memory that her family had said about me ...
... knew she wasn't crying with disappointment over the house , all the same . I knew she was crying at the thought of some of the places I'd had to live in , and at all the things she had in her memory that her family had said about me ...
Page 188
... knew just how much faith Peter had in me . Even when he talked like that there was a threat as well as encourage- ment in his voice . I knew what he thought of me , and I knew what pretty nearly everyone else thought of me , at last . I ...
... knew just how much faith Peter had in me . Even when he talked like that there was a threat as well as encourage- ment in his voice . I knew what he thought of me , and I knew what pretty nearly everyone else thought of me , at last . I ...
Page 189
... knew . It would make a difference to anyone . Any normal sort of person would shrink away from me if he knew what I was mixed up in now . If people knew the whole of it they wouldn't shrink with fear , but maybe their distaste would ...
... knew . It would make a difference to anyone . Any normal sort of person would shrink away from me if he knew what I was mixed up in now . If people knew the whole of it they wouldn't shrink with fear , but maybe their distaste would ...
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