Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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... face , that day I am not likely to forget . I remember the chilly smell of the typical West Indian store , the indescribable smell of damp gloom , of locos , of pimento , of olive oil , of new sugar , of new rum ; the glassy double ...
... face , that day I am not likely to forget . I remember the chilly smell of the typical West Indian store , the indescribable smell of damp gloom , of locos , of pimento , of olive oil , of new sugar , of new rum ; the glassy double ...
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... face of that day ; her eyes were gray - the gray of black , not of blue . For a moment they looked me straight in the face , reflectively , unconcerned , and then traveled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance - remember I was ...
... face of that day ; her eyes were gray - the gray of black , not of blue . For a moment they looked me straight in the face , reflectively , unconcerned , and then traveled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance - remember I was ...
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... face with the color and texture of a white - heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed everything , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the color of a wrinkled pippin . It was the face ...
... face with the color and texture of a white - heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed everything , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the color of a wrinkled pippin . It was the face ...
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... face , and ruffling up his ragged black hair . Mrs. Macdonald clacked all the scandal of the Vale , and the Buckatoro Journal got the benefit of it all , with adornments . For the last month or so the Journal had been more than usually ...
... face , and ruffling up his ragged black hair . Mrs. Macdonald clacked all the scandal of the Vale , and the Buckatoro Journal got the benefit of it all , with adornments . For the last month or so the Journal had been more than usually ...
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... face turned up to the moon . A sort of buzz of voices came from above ; then a man in European clothes was silhouetted against the light in the door- way . He held a full glass very carefully and started to descend . Suddenly he stopped ...
... face turned up to the moon . A sort of buzz of voices came from above ; then a man in European clothes was silhouetted against the light in the door- way . He held a full glass very carefully and started to descend . Suddenly he stopped ...
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