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Having imperiously thrust the door of the inner room open , he remained immovable , with no intention of entering , and called in a harsh , aged voice : “ Seņor Ramon ! Seņor Ramon ! ” and then twice : “ Seraphina – Seraphina !
Having imperiously thrust the door of the inner room open , he remained immovable , with no intention of entering , and called in a harsh , aged voice : “ Seņor Ramon ! Seņor Ramon ! ” and then twice : “ Seraphina – Seraphina !
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I remained alone . The blue bales and the white , and the great red oil jars loomed in the dim light filtering through the jalousies out of the blinding sunlight of Jamaica . ) A moment after , the door opened once more and a young man ...
I remained alone . The blue bales and the white , and the great red oil jars loomed in the dim light filtering through the jalousies out of the blinding sunlight of Jamaica . ) A moment after , the door opened once more and a young man ...
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He had been an inventor , a projector , and my mother had been a poor beauty , brought up on the farm we still lived on — the last rag of land that had remained to her father . Then she had married a good man in his way ; a good enough ...
He had been an inventor , a projector , and my mother had been a poor beauty , brought up on the farm we still lived on — the last rag of land that had remained to her father . Then she had married a good man in his way ; a good enough ...
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Ralph remained lost in a kind of gloomy abstraction , while I went on worrying him for Carlos ' address . " Carlos is the only soul I know outside five miles from here . Besides , he's friends in the Indies .
Ralph remained lost in a kind of gloomy abstraction , while I went on worrying him for Carlos ' address . " Carlos is the only soul I know outside five miles from here . Besides , he's friends in the Indies .
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Jamaica was in those days and remained for many years afterin the throes of a question . The question was , of course , that of tħe abolition of slavery . The planters as a rule were immensely rich and overbearing .
Jamaica was in those days and remained for many years afterin the throes of a question . The question was , of course , that of tħe abolition of slavery . The planters as a rule were immensely rich and overbearing .
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