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PHILIPPA was another’s! Life was no longer worth living. Hope was evaluated; ambition was blunted. The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished. All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading “Life was no longer worth living.”
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From this reading “All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.”
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From this reading PHILIPPA was another’s!
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From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading Hope was evaluated; ambition was blunted.
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From this reading The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished.
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From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished.
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From this reading The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished.
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From this reading Hope was evaluated; ambition was blunted.
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From this reading The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished.
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From this reading The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished.
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From this reading The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished.
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From this reading Life was no longer worth living.
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From this reading Life was no longer worth living.
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From this reading Life was no longer worth living.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished.
not any; not one
From this reading Life was no longer worth living.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading PHILIPPA was another’s!
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From this reading The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished.
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From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished.
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From this reading All the spring, the elasticity seemed taken out of my two Bounding Brothers from the Gutta Percha coast.
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From this reading The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading PHILIPPA was another’s!
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From this reading The interest which I had hitherto felt in my profession vanished.
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From this reading Life was no longer worth living.
