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... heart , and no thought other than the word : madness , madness , madness , everything he was doing now , everything he was about to do , madness . Only now that she had left him did he realize how utterly he had surrendered himself to ...
... heart , and no thought other than the word : madness , madness , madness , everything he was doing now , everything he was about to do , madness . Only now that she had left him did he realize how utterly he had surrendered himself to ...
Page 139
... Heart caught in the big glass eye , a small group of black puppets , distorted like the little devil in the beer glass . He had to sit still for a long time , and he felt a malicious joy grow inside him as he stared at the eye that kept ...
... Heart caught in the big glass eye , a small group of black puppets , distorted like the little devil in the beer glass . He had to sit still for a long time , and he felt a malicious joy grow inside him as he stared at the eye that kept ...
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... hearts ' content in the sandpit with their little buckets and spades , while he himself would have retired for a heart - to - heart talk with the boy , who by now must be the only human being on the globe who did not see him as a comic ...
... hearts ' content in the sandpit with their little buckets and spades , while he himself would have retired for a heart - to - heart talk with the boy , who by now must be the only human being on the globe who did not see him as a comic ...
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