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Page xi
... give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity between a man and his surroundings is often a very misleading circumstance . We became very friendly for a time and I would not like to expose him to unpleasant suspicions ...
... give my readers a wrong impression , since a marked incongruity between a man and his surroundings is often a very misleading circumstance . We became very friendly for a time and I would not like to expose him to unpleasant suspicions ...
Page xii
... 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 he exact contour of his face . What he was travelling for or what was his business in ...
... 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 he exact contour of his face . What he was travelling for or what was his business in ...
Page xiii
... the end got mixed up with an earthquake and so I had no time to give to Ricardo . The reader need not be told that I have not forgotten him , though . My contact with the faithful Pedro was much shorter and AUTHOR'S NOTE.
... the end got mixed up with an earthquake and so I had no time to give to Ricardo . The reader need not be told that I have not forgotten him , though . My contact with the faithful Pedro was much shorter and AUTHOR'S NOTE.
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... Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have my throat cut the day after to ...
... Give me fever . Give me plague . They are diseases . One gets over them . But I am being murdered . I am being murdered by the Portuguese . The gang here downed me at last among them . I am to have my throat cut the day after to ...
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... give up . I never really believed I could . Don't reckon on that , Heyst . I have robbed you . " it Poor Morrison actually laid his head on the cabin table , and remained in that crushed attitude while Heyst talked to him soothingly ...
... give up . I never really believed I could . Don't reckon on that , Heyst . I have robbed you . " it Poor Morrison actually laid his head on the cabin table , and remained in that crushed attitude while Heyst talked to him soothingly ...
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