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Page 19
... longer seemed an incongruity . The way they flung one leg over the arm of their chair was no longer bad manners but the only way to keep cool ; the beer became a necessity and the siesta sensible . When the heat of the Red Sea made the ...
... longer seemed an incongruity . The way they flung one leg over the arm of their chair was no longer bad manners but the only way to keep cool ; the beer became a necessity and the siesta sensible . When the heat of the Red Sea made the ...
Page 49
... longer and longer . He lay underneath his awning and let himself be carried as if on a stretcher : too cowardly , too weak to escape . ' Ah - ce ... Ah - ee ... ' He tiptoed through the tulips towards death . The thread that connected ...
... longer and longer . He lay underneath his awning and let himself be carried as if on a stretcher : too cowardly , too weak to escape . ' Ah - ce ... Ah - ee ... ' He tiptoed through the tulips towards death . The thread that connected ...
Page 404
... longer read what he was writing , he finished the last page with a flourish , and climbed down . At the foot of the ... longer smoked , that he could smell it : a repulsive stench of putrefaction , of sweat and filth and decom- posing ...
... longer read what he was writing , he finished the last page with a flourish , and climbed down . At the foot of the ... longer smoked , that he could smell it : a repulsive stench of putrefaction , of sweat and filth and decom- posing ...
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