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Page xi
... give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity between a man and his surroundings is often a very misleading circumstance . We became very friendly for a time and I would not like to expose him to unpleasant suspicions ...
... give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity between a man and his surroundings is often a very misleading circumstance . We became very friendly for a time and I would not like to expose him to unpleasant suspicions ...
Page xii
... give me a glance and make the hairs of his stiff little moustache stir quaintly . His eyes were green , and to this day every cat I see reminds me of the exact contour of his face . What he was travelling for or what was his business in ...
... give me a glance and make the hairs of his stiff little moustache stir quaintly . His eyes were green , and to this day every cat I see reminds me of the exact contour of his face . What he was travelling for or what was his business in ...
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... give to Ricardo . The reader need not be told that I have not forgotten him , though . My contact with the faithful Pedro was much shorter and my observation of him was less complete but incom- parably more anxious . It ended in a ...
... give to Ricardo . The reader need not be told that I have not forgotten him , though . My contact with the faithful Pedro was much shorter and my observation of him was less complete but incom- parably more anxious . It ended in a ...
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... . Heyst meantime , politely watchful , had taken a seat opposite . " You are in for a bout of fever , I fear , " he said sym- pathetically . Poor Morrison's tongue was loosened at last . " Fever ! " he cried . " Give me VICTORY 11.
... . Heyst meantime , politely watchful , had taken a seat opposite . " You are in for a bout of fever , I fear , " he said sym- pathetically . Poor Morrison's tongue was loosened at last . " Fever ! " he cried . " Give me VICTORY 11.
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Joseph Conrad. " Fever ! " he cried . " Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have ...
Joseph Conrad. " Fever ! " he cried . " Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have ...
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