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Bowen Marjorie. God's Playthings
God's Playthings
Table of Contents
GOD’S PLAYTHINGS. THE KING’S SON
A BIOGRAPHY
A POOR SPANISH LODGING
DEFEAT
TWILIGHT
THE CAMP OUTSIDE NAMUR
THE POLANDER
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF GRACE ENDICOTT
THE CUP OF CHICORY WATER
THE BURNING OF THE VANITIES
A WOMAN OF THE PEOPLE
THE ARISTOCRAT
THE BETROTHED OF PEDRO EL JUSTICAR
THE MACEDONIAN GROOM
THE PRISONER
THE YELLOW INTAGLIO
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Marjorie Bowen
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Your father!” he said softly, and added: “To think we never saw it!” which was an extraordinary thing to say; yet, on looking at the likeness in little and on the fair agonised face staring across the candlelight one might notice that they were in almost every detail the same, and methought I was a very fool never to have observed before how these two men were alike, even to little manners and fashions of speech.
And being that I saw the tragic pitifulness of it all, I could do no more than laugh dismally also.
