Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 251, Issue 1517William Blackwood, 1942 |
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Page 169
... Doddington , complete with the broad - brimmed hat and the overcoat seedy - looking astrakhan with the collar that are so well known in our streets . He asked for tobacco and I told him I had none ; for , as it happened , the Major had ...
... Doddington , complete with the broad - brimmed hat and the overcoat seedy - looking astrakhan with the collar that are so well known in our streets . He asked for tobacco and I told him I had none ; for , as it happened , the Major had ...
Page 170
... Doddington became one of our smokers ' circle . I remember the first evening when he came among us , and how he made an entrance into my small sitting - room which gave one the impression that a packed theatre had been waiting ...
... Doddington became one of our smokers ' circle . I remember the first evening when he came among us , and how he made an entrance into my small sitting - room which gave one the impression that a packed theatre had been waiting ...
Page 174
... Doddington coming here and acting plays for your own private fun when you might have taken the Assembly Hall and made pounds out of them for the fund ! ” 66 The effect of this remark could be gauged by the profound silence which ...
... Doddington coming here and acting plays for your own private fun when you might have taken the Assembly Hall and made pounds out of them for the fund ! ” 66 The effect of this remark could be gauged by the profound silence which ...
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