Victory : an Island TaleJ.M. Dent, 1960 - 414 pages |
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... walked out of the room . It was in a little hotel in the Island of St. Thomas in the West Indies ( in the year '75 ) where we found him one hot afternoon extended on three chairs , all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his ...
... walked out of the room . It was in a little hotel in the Island of St. Thomas in the West Indies ( in the year '75 ) where we found him one hot afternoon extended on three chairs , all alone in the loud buzzing of flies to which his ...
Page 159
... walked to the end of the room , came back smartly and muttered a profound " Ay ! Ay ! " above Schomberg's rigid head . That the hotel - keeper was capable of a great moral effort was proved by a gradual return of his severe , Lieutenant ...
... walked to the end of the room , came back smartly and muttered a profound " Ay ! Ay ! " above Schomberg's rigid head . That the hotel - keeper was capable of a great moral effort was proved by a gradual return of his severe , Lieutenant ...
Page 183
... walked back slowly towards the jetty ; but he did not get so far as that . The practical and automatic Wang had got hold of one of the little trucks that had been used for running baskets of coal alongside ships . He appeared pushing it ...
... walked back slowly towards the jetty ; but he did not get so far as that . The practical and automatic Wang had got hold of one of the little trucks that had been used for running baskets of coal alongside ships . He appeared pushing it ...
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