James Miranda BarrySerpent's Tail, 1999 - Počet stran: 375 James Miranda Barry enrols as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon. He achieves fame as a legendary duellist and a celebrated social figure. But James Miranda Barry was also a woman. Her greatest achievement has been to pass for a man for 50 years. |
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... moved her finger from one word to the next , slowly , intoning the text . One word after another , like a rite chanted . Through a crack in the door we heard the vicar doing the same thing . " I have loved to hear my Lord spoken of ...
... moved her finger from one word to the next , slowly , intoning the text . One word after another , like a rite chanted . Through a crack in the door we heard the vicar doing the same thing . " I have loved to hear my Lord spoken of ...
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... moved . He tries to get out of bed and go on working on his canvases , if he's not watched . Louisa has been wonderful . One of her women , Mrs Harris , has tried to make something of the range so that we have hot water and fires in at ...
... moved . He tries to get out of bed and go on working on his canvases , if he's not watched . Louisa has been wonderful . One of her women , Mrs Harris , has tried to make something of the range so that we have hot water and fires in at ...
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... moved . He also refuses to see Mary Ann . Inexplicably , her banishment causes her to overflow in great pools of grief . He demands continually to see Alice , but has ceased to insist upon the recovery of the box . " Bring her home , my ...
... moved . He also refuses to see Mary Ann . Inexplicably , her banishment causes her to overflow in great pools of grief . He demands continually to see Alice , but has ceased to insist upon the recovery of the box . " Bring her home , my ...
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