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Page 38
... chapel and corridors , polishing the wooden floors and dusting the chapel furniture under the supervision of a girl named Kath- leen . Even today , after more than half a century , the smell of wood polish never fails to evoke unhappy ...
... chapel and corridors , polishing the wooden floors and dusting the chapel furniture under the supervision of a girl named Kath- leen . Even today , after more than half a century , the smell of wood polish never fails to evoke unhappy ...
Page 40
... chapel , at seven in the morning , I wasn't always alert enough to see the signal . I would sometimes miss it through concentrating on his hand the very morning that he decided to signal with his head . This infuriated the priest , and ...
... chapel , at seven in the morning , I wasn't always alert enough to see the signal . I would sometimes miss it through concentrating on his hand the very morning that he decided to signal with his head . This infuriated the priest , and ...
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... chapel . You should have seen his face : it turned purple , and as for his neck , it bloated to twice its size from frus- tration , the sinews fit to burst his collar , and he'd wring his hands and puff and blow and snort , and yell ...
... chapel . You should have seen his face : it turned purple , and as for his neck , it bloated to twice its size from frus- tration , the sinews fit to burst his collar , and he'd wring his hands and puff and blow and snort , and yell ...
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