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Page 82
... queer sort of satisfaction in giving way ; it's that that is the pleasure in being miserable , the feeling of unrestraint ; and I think I'll die soon , so what does it matter ? The Scotch book has some queer poems in it ; they're nearly ...
... queer sort of satisfaction in giving way ; it's that that is the pleasure in being miserable , the feeling of unrestraint ; and I think I'll die soon , so what does it matter ? The Scotch book has some queer poems in it ; they're nearly ...
Page 98
... queer lonely life ? Perhaps he is unhappy . But he never would let me love him . It's funny , though , how parting softens your heart ; Dick says it's because you're so glad to get rid of people that you feel you like them better . Then ...
... queer lonely life ? Perhaps he is unhappy . But he never would let me love him . It's funny , though , how parting softens your heart ; Dick says it's because you're so glad to get rid of people that you feel you like them better . Then ...
Page 144
... queer feeling of comfort , and yet it hurt me worse than anything ever has since . I didn't realise girls like us were despised so much . Nobody seemed to think the girl was fit for anything else but to marry the man who had betrayed ...
... queer feeling of comfort , and yet it hurt me worse than anything ever has since . I didn't realise girls like us were despised so much . Nobody seemed to think the girl was fit for anything else but to marry the man who had betrayed ...
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