Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 84
... Miss Larolles , Miss Leeson , the absurd Mr. Meadows who thought it dowdy to appear to enjoy anything . Captain Aresby with his conversation all scattered over with French phrases , the miserly Mr. Briggs . Fanny Burney does not present ...
... Miss Larolles , Miss Leeson , the absurd Mr. Meadows who thought it dowdy to appear to enjoy anything . Captain Aresby with his conversation all scattered over with French phrases , the miserly Mr. Briggs . Fanny Burney does not present ...
Page 85
... Miss , ' said Mr. Branghton , ' you're quite in the fashion , I see ; so you like operas ? Well , I'm not so polite ; I can't like nonsense , let it be never so much the taste . ' " But pray , Miss , ' said the son , ' what makes that ...
... Miss , ' said Mr. Branghton , ' you're quite in the fashion , I see ; so you like operas ? Well , I'm not so polite ; I can't like nonsense , let it be never so much the taste . ' " But pray , Miss , ' said the son , ' what makes that ...
Page 185
... Miss Quested . The crisis of the book comes when the last trio go on a picnic to the Malabar caves with the Hindu , Aziz . Suddenly their effort at friendship with him is frustrated ; not by human agency this time , but by Nature ...
... Miss Quested . The crisis of the book comes when the last trio go on a picnic to the Malabar caves with the Hindu , Aziz . Suddenly their effort at friendship with him is frustrated ; not by human agency this time , but by Nature ...
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