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In the Malaya rubber country , a deranged and inebriated British planter , erroneously accusing Maugham of illicit sexual relationships with his spinster daughter , fired a pistol at almost point - blank range at his head - and missed .
In the Malaya rubber country , a deranged and inebriated British planter , erroneously accusing Maugham of illicit sexual relationships with his spinster daughter , fired a pistol at almost point - blank range at his head - and missed .
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The British , seldom oppressive or unjust , sometimes treated their non - British fellow subjects with lack of consideration , discourtesy , offensive patronage or scorn . Between rulers and ruled there was an enormous gulf in culture ...
The British , seldom oppressive or unjust , sometimes treated their non - British fellow subjects with lack of consideration , discourtesy , offensive patronage or scorn . Between rulers and ruled there was an enormous gulf in culture ...
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His first exhibition was the simple marble slabs put up by the officers to the memory of the British who fell . As the church was dark we could only dimly read the names of Skerrett , Mercer , Carleton , MacDonald , & others whom we ...
His first exhibition was the simple marble slabs put up by the officers to the memory of the British who fell . As the church was dark we could only dimly read the names of Skerrett , Mercer , Carleton , MacDonald , & others whom we ...
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JANUARY 1969 VOLUME 305 | 1 |
SURTSEY THE FORBIDDEN ISLAND Esmé Speakman | 13 |
TRUMPETERWHAT ARE YOU SOUNDING NOW? R T | 22 |
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