The Spiral RoadNovel relating the present and past of a group of men and women, doctors and missionaries, working in the jungles of Borneo. |
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Page 102
... never ! He had already done too much for them ! Never , never in a hundred years .. Toward daybreak they had written , with his assistance , the reply that was torn up five times before at last it was ready without corrections or blots ...
... never ! He had already done too much for them ! Never , never in a hundred years .. Toward daybreak they had written , with his assistance , the reply that was torn up five times before at last it was ready without corrections or blots ...
Page 184
... never have you back for myself alone , never , and when I saw you carry that sick woman , I . . . I wasn't converted - no , no , Willem ! Let me say it , let me say it quickly , while it is still dark , I . . . I've never been really ...
... never have you back for myself alone , never , and when I saw you carry that sick woman , I . . . I wasn't converted - no , no , Willem ! Let me say it , let me say it quickly , while it is still dark , I . . . I've never been really ...
Page 398
... Never before had he come to know a neighbor so intimately , eavesdropping on his innermost thoughts , following all ... never share his life with someone else , for he would never rid himself of that ghostly companion within his own soul ...
... Never before had he come to know a neighbor so intimately , eavesdropping on his innermost thoughts , following all ... never share his life with someone else , for he would never rid himself of that ghostly companion within his own soul ...
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