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Page xi
... feelings aroused by the critical notices the book obtained when first published almost exactly a year after the beginning of the great war . The writing of it was finished in 1914 long before the murder of an Aus- trian Archduke sounded ...
... feelings aroused by the critical notices the book obtained when first published almost exactly a year after the beginning of the great war . The writing of it was finished in 1914 long before the murder of an Aus- trian Archduke sounded ...
Page 6
... feelings ? Thus reasoned men in reputable business offices where he had his entrée as a person who came out East with letters of introduction — and modest letters of credit , too -some years before these coal - outcrops began to crop up ...
... feelings ? Thus reasoned men in reputable business offices where he had his entrée as a person who came out East with letters of introduction — and modest letters of credit , too -some years before these coal - outcrops began to crop up ...
Page 18
... feelings per- fectly . No decent feeling was ever scorned by Heyst . But he was incapable of outward cordiality of manner , and he felt acutely his defect . Consummate politeness is not the right tonic for an emotional collapse . They ...
... feelings per- fectly . No decent feeling was ever scorned by Heyst . But he was incapable of outward cordiality of manner , and he felt acutely his defect . Consummate politeness is not the right tonic for an emotional collapse . They ...
Page 22
... feelings Morrison's gratitude insisted on Heyst's partnership in the great discovery . Ultimately we heard that Morrison had gone home through the Suez Canal in order to push the magnificent coal idea personally in London . He parted ...
... feelings Morrison's gratitude insisted on Heyst's partnership in the great discovery . Ultimately we heard that Morrison had gone home through the Suez Canal in order to push the magnificent coal idea personally in London . He parted ...
Page 29
... feeling , I think , though of course he had no more polish than the rest of us . We were naturally a hail- fellow - well - met crowd , with standards of our own- no worse , I daresay , than other people's ; but polish was not one of ...
... feeling , I think , though of course he had no more polish than the rest of us . We were naturally a hail- fellow - well - met crowd , with standards of our own- no worse , I daresay , than other people's ; but polish was not one of ...
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