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... young lady when she decided that she must become a doctor . It was a strange , disquieting decision , for in Sussex country houses in those days young ladies did not become doctors ; they played tennis and went to dances in order to ...
... young lady when she decided that she must become a doctor . It was a strange , disquieting decision , for in Sussex country houses in those days young ladies did not become doctors ; they played tennis and went to dances in order to ...
Page 84
... young she must have been beautiful , very vivacious , a gleam of genius with that indescribably female charm which made her invincible to all men and most women . One felt all this still lingering in her as one sometimes feels the ...
... young she must have been beautiful , very vivacious , a gleam of genius with that indescribably female charm which made her invincible to all men and most women . One felt all this still lingering in her as one sometimes feels the ...
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... young woman , Alice Ritchie , who had just been sacked , he thought rather unfairly , from a responsible post in the Secretariat . Alice was a remarkable young woman with a character entirely her own . I cannot now remember what brought ...
... young woman , Alice Ritchie , who had just been sacked , he thought rather unfairly , from a responsible post in the Secretariat . Alice was a remarkable young woman with a character entirely her own . I cannot now remember what brought ...
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