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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 sheen of Ramon's great spectacles , the piercing ...
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 sheen of Ramon's great spectacles , the piercing ...
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I remember her 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 .
I remember her 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 .
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You are to remember that I knew nothing whatever of that great world . I had 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 ...
You are to remember that I knew nothing whatever of that great world . I had 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 ...
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Besides , he's friends in the Indies . That's where I want to go , and he could give me a cast . You remember what Tomas Castro said . Rooksby came to a sudden halt , and began furiously to switch his corded legs .
Besides , he's friends in the Indies . That's where I want to go , and he could give me a cast . You remember what Tomas Castro said . Rooksby came to a sudden halt , and began furiously to switch his corded legs .
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But I can still remember how , at that moment , I made the acquaintance of my heart - a thing that bounded and leapt within my chest , a little sickeningly . The other details I forget . Jack Rangsley was a tall , big - boned , thin man ...
But I can still remember how , at that moment , I made the acquaintance of my heart - a thing that bounded and leapt within my chest , a little sickeningly . The other details I forget . Jack Rangsley was a tall , big - boned , thin man ...
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