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Page xi
Our invasion must have displeased him because he got off the chairs brusquely
and walked out leaving with me an indelibly weird impression of his thin shanks.
One of the men with me said that the fellow was the most desperate gambler ...
Our invasion must have displeased him because he got off the chairs brusquely
and walked out leaving with me an indelibly weird impression of his thin shanks.
One of the men with me said that the fellow was the most desperate gambler ...
Page xiv
Since this Note is mostly concerned with personal contacts and the origins of the
persons in the tale, I am bound also to speak of Lena, because if I were to leave
her out it would look like a slight; and nothing would be further from my thoughts ...
Since this Note is mostly concerned with personal contacts and the origins of the
persons in the tale, I am bound also to speak of Lena, because if I were to leave
her out it would look like a slight; and nothing would be further from my thoughts ...
Page 30
Couldn't wait— only begged that Heyst should be informed that the Sissie would
leave at midnight. "Not— here, I am telling you!" Davidson slapped his thigh in
concern. "Dear me! Hospital, I suppose." A natural enough surmise in a very ...
Couldn't wait— only begged that Heyst should be informed that the Sissie would
leave at midnight. "Not— here, I am telling you!" Davidson slapped his thigh in
concern. "Dear me! Hospital, I suppose." A natural enough surmise in a very ...
Page 36
"Why, she helped the girl to bolt," said Davidson turning at me his innocent eyes,
rounded by the state of constant amazement in which this affair had left him, like
those shocks of terror or sorrow which sometimes leave their victim afflicted by ...
"Why, she helped the girl to bolt," said Davidson turning at me his innocent eyes,
rounded by the state of constant amazement in which this affair had left him, like
those shocks of terror or sorrow which sometimes leave their victim afflicted by ...
Page 41
But there was no second fight; and finally, with looks of fierce animosity, they got
together into a gharry— obviously with the frugal view of sharing expenses— and
drove away, leaving an astonished little crowd of Europeans and natives on the ...
But there was no second fight; and finally, with looks of fierce animosity, they got
together into a gharry— obviously with the frugal view of sharing expenses— and
drove away, leaving an astonished little crowd of Europeans and natives on the ...
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