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Page xii
... voice with his familiar devil . Now and then he would 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 ...
... voice with his familiar devil . Now and then he would 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 ...
Page xiii
... voice full of pain . Then he who has become Ricardo in the book would go below into that beastly and noisome hole , remain there mysteriously , and coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read , would as likely as ...
... voice full of pain . Then he who has become Ricardo in the book would go below into that beastly and noisome hole , remain there mysteriously , and coming up on deck again with a face on which nothing could be read , would as likely as ...
Page xvi
... voice was very charming and when the performers resumed their seats I shifted my position slightly in order not to ... voices , the rattling of dominoes , through a Livi AUTHOR'S NOTE.
... voice was very charming and when the performers resumed their seats I shifted my position slightly in order not to ... voices , the rattling of dominoes , through a Livi AUTHOR'S NOTE.
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... voice . " There's nothing worth knowing but facts . Hard facts ! Facts alone , Mr. Tesman . " I don't know if old Tesman agreed with him or not , but he must have spoken about it , because , for a time , our man got the name of " Hard ...
... voice . " There's nothing worth knowing but facts . Hard facts ! Facts alone , Mr. Tesman . " I don't know if old Tesman agreed with him or not , but he must have spoken about it , because , for a time , our man got the name of " Hard ...
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... voice , which was his obvious char- acteristic , he had said with delicate playfulness : " Come along and quench your thirst with us , Mr. McNab ! " Perhaps that was it . A man who could propose , even playfully , to quench old McNab's ...
... voice , which was his obvious char- acteristic , he had said with delicate playfulness : " Come along and quench your thirst with us , Mr. McNab ! " Perhaps that was it . A man who could propose , even playfully , to quench old McNab's ...
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