The Finding of NorahHoughton Mifflin, 1918 - 91 страница |
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... asked Norah , though she knew . Norah's girlhood had been oppressed by the superiority of her older sisters . One of them was beautiful , and ways of ease and delight were open to her . The other was clever , and had graduated from ...
... asked Norah , though she knew . Norah's girlhood had been oppressed by the superiority of her older sisters . One of them was beautiful , and ways of ease and delight were open to her . The other was clever , and had graduated from ...
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... . He did not think of her as pretty , but there came the moment when she looked at him across the firelight and he saw that she was lovely . Soon after this he asked her to marry him , and then came the days II THE FINDING OF NORAH.
... . He did not think of her as pretty , but there came the moment when she looked at him across the firelight and he saw that she was lovely . Soon after this he asked her to marry him , and then came the days II THE FINDING OF NORAH.
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... asked . " Belief on such slight evidence would seem to imply a touching faith worthy of martyrs , " answered the tutor . Norah laughed , a short , excited laugh . " They said also that he wrote his note because he was afraid of ...
... asked . " Belief on such slight evidence would seem to imply a touching faith worthy of martyrs , " answered the tutor . Norah laughed , a short , excited laugh . " They said also that he wrote his note because he was afraid of ...
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... asked him privately if Norah were not a pacifist , and the disgrace of this suggestion had blurred their happiness for several days . Norah told herself that such a thing must not happen again . Should not love be greater than opinions ...
... asked him privately if Norah were not a pacifist , and the disgrace of this suggestion had blurred their happiness for several days . Norah told herself that such a thing must not happen again . Should not love be greater than opinions ...
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... asked . Norah began to talk earnestly and swiftly , as if this were her one chance of talking at all . " Sometimes I think about the Germans , " she said . " And lately I have been humming German songs in- side my head . I don't want to ...
... asked . Norah began to talk earnestly and swiftly , as if this were her one chance of talking at all . " Sometimes I think about the Germans , " she said . " And lately I have been humming German songs in- side my head . I don't want to ...
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