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Page 29
... somehow resemble sunbonnets . Everybody knows everybody . Everybody is married . If War has a smell , the Quakers remind you of a taste ; the taste of plain home - made bread . It is always obtainable and ordinarily you take it for ...
... somehow resemble sunbonnets . Everybody knows everybody . Everybody is married . If War has a smell , the Quakers remind you of a taste ; the taste of plain home - made bread . It is always obtainable and ordinarily you take it for ...
Page 109
... somehow become reconciled to it while I was asleep . It was part of my condition , and I accepted it as completely as I accepted my nose and ears . Lying there , in the almost mindless calm of first waking , I felt as if I could ...
... somehow become reconciled to it while I was asleep . It was part of my condition , and I accepted it as completely as I accepted my nose and ears . Lying there , in the almost mindless calm of first waking , I felt as if I could ...
Page 294
... Somehow or other - in some way that I don't in the least understand - the bog is being drained . I feel this . In fact , I know it . I don't try to explain to myself what is happening to me , yet . I'm just thankful . It's a sort of ...
... Somehow or other - in some way that I don't in the least understand - the bog is being drained . I feel this . In fact , I know it . I don't try to explain to myself what is happening to me , yet . I'm just thankful . It's a sort of ...
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