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| 1 | 25 | View more quotes about surely">Surely I had no publications, and I am confident there must have been several candidates from American universities whose credentials and capacities would have far outshone my own, except for the desiderated British accent. |
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| 1 | 22 | In time I assumed I would be found out, but meanwhile I had my passage to America paid and a position for at least one year. |
| 1 | 23 | This outcome struck me as being a pleasant if perplexing state of affairs. |
| 1 | 24 | I admit I was annoyed by the suspicion that I had been given the appointment largely on the grounds that I would be faculty exotica. |
| 1 | 25 | Surely I had no publications, and I am confident there must have been several candidates from American universities whose credentials and capacities would have far outshone my own, except for the desiderated British accent. |
| 1 | 26 | Yes, there would be the round of teas and the cocktail and supper invitations. |
| 1 | 27 | I liked America very much, though I was quite busy the first semester, smashing through numerous texts in an undignified manner, attempting to commit enough English history to memory to keep at least a reign or so ahead of my students. |
| 1 | 28 | I discovered, to my dismay, that being English does not automatically qualify one as an authority on English history. |