A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and LettersDutton, 1984 - 358 pages |
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Page 82
... sitting drinking beer , doing nobody any harm . Curiously enough - the day after we came back I was sitting in the Hotel Eden reading the Times and in it was a letter from Mr B. about the Sudeten Germans . Well , we went to Prague via ...
... sitting drinking beer , doing nobody any harm . Curiously enough - the day after we came back I was sitting in the Hotel Eden reading the Times and in it was a letter from Mr B. about the Sudeten Germans . Well , we went to Prague via ...
Page 106
... sitting in the garden stands and peers at you through the trelliswork by the back door . One morning when I was washing up the breakfast things she came and stood with her hands at the draining board , staring at me . ' Wordsworth could ...
... sitting in the garden stands and peers at you through the trelliswork by the back door . One morning when I was washing up the breakfast things she came and stood with her hands at the draining board , staring at me . ' Wordsworth could ...
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... sit in a deck chair , eyes closed against its ravages . 10 May . Sitting at lunch in the help - yourself in Bourne and Hollingsworth I think why , those women sitting round me are like lunatics in some colour supplement photographs of ...
... sit in a deck chair , eyes closed against its ravages . 10 May . Sitting at lunch in the help - yourself in Bourne and Hollingsworth I think why , those women sitting round me are like lunatics in some colour supplement photographs of ...
Contents
List of Illustrations vii | 9 |
Preface by Hazel Holt | xiii |
The Early Life by Hilary Pym I | xviii |
Copyright | |
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