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... hand whose delicate blue - veined , wrinkled wrist ran back into a foam of lawn ruffles . The other hand paused in the act of conveying a pinch of snuff to the nostrils of the hooked nose that had , on the skin stretched tight over the ...
... hand whose delicate blue - veined , wrinkled wrist ran back into a foam of lawn ruffles . The other hand paused in the act of conveying a pinch of snuff to the nostrils of the hooked nose that had , on the skin stretched tight over the ...
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... hand of Veronica and was accepted - by my mother . Veronica went about looking happy . That upset me , too . It seemed unjust that she would go out into the great world - to Bath , to Brighton , should see the Prince Regent and the ...
... hand of Veronica and was accepted - by my mother . Veronica went about looking happy . That upset me , too . It seemed unjust that she would go out into the great world - to Bath , to Brighton , should see the Prince Regent and the ...
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... hands . One of them had his fist on my collar and jerked me out upon the hard road . We rolled down the embankment ... hand on my throat was like a foretaste of the other collar . And I was horribly afraid - horribly - of the sort of ...
... hands . One of them had his fist on my collar and jerked me out upon the hard road . We rolled down the embankment ... hand on my throat was like a foretaste of the other collar . And I was horribly afraid - horribly - of the sort of ...
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... hands caught at me . It was impossible to make myself heard ; a fist struck me on the cheek . " Gibbet ' em , " somebody ... hand light a torch at the lanthorn , and the crowd of faces , the muddle of limbs , the horses ' heads , and the ...
... hands caught at me . It was impossible to make myself heard ; a fist struck me on the cheek . " Gibbet ' em , " somebody ... hand light a torch at the lanthorn , and the crowd of faces , the muddle of limbs , the horses ' heads , and the ...
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... hands fumbling with a knot at the back of my head . " You're all right , " he said again . The hubbub of voices ceased ... hand left my arm ; there was a pause in the mo- tion of the procession . I caught a moment's sound of whispering ...
... hands fumbling with a knot at the back of my head . " You're all right , " he said again . The hubbub of voices ceased ... hand left my arm ; there was a pause in the mo- tion of the procession . I caught a moment's sound of whispering ...
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