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... Lena , because if I were to leave her out it would look like a slight ; and nothing would be further from my thoughts than putting a slight on Lena . If of all the personages involved in the " mystery of Samburan ” I have lived longest ...
... Lena , because if I were to leave her out it would look like a slight ; and nothing would be further from my thoughts than putting a slight on Lena . If of all the personages involved in the " mystery of Samburan ” I have lived longest ...
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... Lena . She remarked after a pause : " I was not very far from you . " " Apparently you were not near enough for me . ' " " " You could have called if you wanted me , " she said . “ And I wasn't so long doing my hair . " " Apparently it ...
... Lena . She remarked after a pause : " I was not very far from you . " " Apparently you were not near enough for me . ' " " " You could have called if you wanted me , " she said . “ And I wasn't so long doing my hair . " " Apparently it ...
Page 156
... Lena entered the shade of the forest path which crossed the island , and which , near its highest point , had been blocked by felled trees . But their intention was not to go so far . After keeping to the path for some distance , they ...
... Lena entered the shade of the forest path which crossed the island , and which , near its highest point , had been blocked by felled trees . But their intention was not to go so far . After keeping to the path for some distance , they ...
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... did not yet know how to live ; that human being so near and still so strange , gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life . IV WITH her knees drawn up , Lena rested her 164 VICTORY.
... did not yet know how to live ; that human being so near and still so strange , gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life . IV WITH her knees drawn up , Lena rested her 164 VICTORY.
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Joseph Conrad. IV WITH her knees drawn up , Lena rested her elbows on them and held her head in both her hands . " Are you tired of sitting here ? " Heyst asked . An almost imperceptible negative movement of the head was all the answer ...
Joseph Conrad. IV WITH her knees drawn up , Lena rested her elbows on them and held her head in both her hands . " Are you tired of sitting here ? " Heyst asked . An almost imperceptible negative movement of the head was all the answer ...
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