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Page 15
... close to me : " Now , you runners — and you , John Kemp - here you be on the brink of eternity , above the old quarry . There's a sheer drop of a hundred feet . We'll tie your legs and hang you by your fingers . If you hang long enough ...
... close to me : " Now , you runners — and you , John Kemp - here you be on the brink of eternity , above the old quarry . There's a sheer drop of a hundred feet . We'll tie your legs and hang you by your fingers . If you hang long enough ...
Page 32
... close to us then . Carlos looked at me with an expression of affection that a little shamed my lightness of tone : " I love you much more than a kinsman , Juan , " he said . " I wish you could come with me . I try to arrange it . Later ...
... close to us then . Carlos looked at me with an expression of affection that a little shamed my lightness of tone : " I love you much more than a kinsman , Juan , " he said . " I wish you could come with me . I try to arrange it . Later ...
Page 47
... close his ears and pretend not to hear . The planters had another grievance the pirates in the Gulf of Mexico . There was one in particular , a certain El Demonio or Diableto , who practically sealed the Florida passage ; it was hardly ...
... close his ears and pretend not to hear . The planters had another grievance the pirates in the Gulf of Mexico . There was one in particular , a certain El Demonio or Diableto , who practically sealed the Florida passage ; it was hardly ...
Page 72
... close to us , and handed it to her father , who had leant a little forward in his chair . Every movement of hers affected me with an intimate joy ; it was as if I had been waiting to see just that carriage of the neck , just that proud ...
... close to us , and handed it to her father , who had leant a little forward in his chair . Every movement of hers affected me with an intimate joy ; it was as if I had been waiting to see just that carriage of the neck , just that proud ...
Page 81
... close to us now . What do you mean by coming - to right across my bows like this ? " it yelled in a fury . 66 I stood still in the shadows on the poop . We were drawing slowly past the stern of the Spaniard , and O'Brien's voice ...
... close to us now . What do you mean by coming - to right across my bows like this ? " it yelled in a fury . 66 I stood still in the shadows on the poop . We were drawing slowly past the stern of the Spaniard , and O'Brien's voice ...
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