Lie Down in Darkness: A NovelBobbs-Merrill, 1951 - 400 pages |
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Page 16
... father , through government connections , got him a commission in the Army legal branch . During the entire war he was at Governor's Island . There , by processes more simple than he had ever imagined , he was made first lieutenant and ...
... father , through government connections , got him a commission in the Army legal branch . During the entire war he was at Governor's Island . There , by processes more simple than he had ever imagined , he was made first lieutenant and ...
Page 17
... father , now a diffidently mild , still doting old man in whom patience was no longer a virtue but a habit , who stood shyly in one corner of the officers ' club at the reception , the ends of his once - proud mustache twitching sadly ...
... father , now a diffidently mild , still doting old man in whom patience was no longer a virtue but a habit , who stood shyly in one corner of the officers ' club at the reception , the ends of his once - proud mustache twitching sadly ...
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... father , picking up the hat with a little grunt . But pausing-- " " Pausing , " Dolly said . like " Pausing . Looking into my father's eyes . These other eyes tragic and sweet and sorrowful : deep and old as time , my father said ; it ...
... father , picking up the hat with a little grunt . But pausing-- " " Pausing , " Dolly said . like " Pausing . Looking into my father's eyes . These other eyes tragic and sweet and sorrowful : deep and old as time , my father said ; it ...
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