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... never been further away from our farm than just to Canterbury school , to Hythe market , to Romney market . Our farm nestled down under the steep , brown downs , just beside the Roman road to Canterbury ; Stone Street - the Street - we ...
... never been further away from our farm than just to Canterbury school , to Hythe market , to Romney market . Our farm nestled down under the steep , brown downs , just beside the Roman road to Canterbury ; Stone Street - the Street - we ...
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... never touch us , " Lillywhite grumbled . " We've a He was flashing his lan- warrant . • King's name . thorn aimlessly up the hill . this gallus bird . If he's I heard him . Kemp he " Besides , " he began again , " we've got not a ...
... never touch us , " Lillywhite grumbled . " We've a He was flashing his lan- warrant . • King's name . thorn aimlessly up the hill . this gallus bird . If he's I heard him . Kemp he " Besides , " he began again , " we've got not a ...
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... never loosed his hold of my collar . At the steep of the hill the men and horses came into sight against the white sky , a confused crowd of ominous things . Turn that lanthorn off'n me , " the horseman said . " Don't you see you ...
... never loosed his hold of my collar . At the steep of the hill the men and horses came into sight against the white sky , a confused crowd of ominous things . Turn that lanthorn off'n me , " the horseman said . " Don't you see you ...
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... never been in Cuba or seen his uncle ; but he had , as I have indicated , ruined himself in one way or another in Spain , and it had come as a God - send to him when his uncle had sent Tomas Castro to bring him to Cuba , to the town of ...
... never been in Cuba or seen his uncle ; but he had , as I have indicated , ruined himself in one way or another in Spain , and it had come as a God - send to him when his uncle had sent Tomas Castro to bring him to Cuba , to the town of ...
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... never expect that . " He had actually impaled a crawling cockroach . He spent his days cooking extraor- dinary messes , crouching for hours over a little charcoal brazier that he lit surreptitiously in the back of his bunk , making ...
... never expect that . " He had actually impaled a crawling cockroach . He spent his days cooking extraor- dinary messes , crouching for hours over a little charcoal brazier that he lit surreptitiously in the back of his bunk , making ...
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