Fellow Passengers: A Novel in PortraitsSecrets, foibles, and ironies expose the Establishment in this subtle novel of society matrons and dilettantes, of debutante parties and contested wills. Auchincloss reveals his gallery of portraits with style and wit. |
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... Father in the summer 1920 had been taken in as a partner of his law firm . But when he wrote to his parents , then ... father and I were too upset to answer any of our correspondence . " The blast from the mysterious wagon parked outside ...
... Father in the summer 1920 had been taken in as a partner of his law firm . But when he wrote to his parents , then ... father and I were too upset to answer any of our correspondence . " The blast from the mysterious wagon parked outside ...
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... Father's excuse for not going to Paris . As to many women of her generation , anything concerning his work , the ... Father's law practice leagues ahead of Aunt Mabel's nursing she was being realistic rather than antifeminist . The ...
... Father's excuse for not going to Paris . As to many women of her generation , anything concerning his work , the ... Father's law practice leagues ahead of Aunt Mabel's nursing she was being realistic rather than antifeminist . The ...
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... father's family are chronically timid . I wouldn't mind it , except for the fact that they put up such a con- stant front of being spunkier than I am . Aunt Mabel has a dread of infection or of being physically hurt . That's one of the ...
... father's family are chronically timid . I wouldn't mind it , except for the fact that they put up such a con- stant front of being spunkier than I am . Aunt Mabel has a dread of infection or of being physically hurt . That's one of the ...
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