Romance: A NovelDoubleday, 1931 - 541 pages |
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... hair , untidy for want of a valet , a shining , delicate , hooked nose , narrow - lidded blue eyes , and a face with the colour and texture of a white - heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed ...
... hair , untidy for want of a valet , a shining , delicate , hooked nose , narrow - lidded blue eyes , and a face with the colour and texture of a white - heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed ...
Page 73
... hair , one a negro whose skin had no lustre at all . The rest were very dark - skinned , peak - bearded , and had long hair falling round their necks . A soldier with a ham- mer and a small anvil climbed into the cart , THE GIRL WITH ...
... hair , one a negro whose skin had no lustre at all . The rest were very dark - skinned , peak - bearded , and had long hair falling round their necks . A soldier with a ham- mer and a small anvil climbed into the cart , THE GIRL WITH ...
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... hair , came mincingly into the witness - box . He held for a long time what seemed to be an amiable conversation with Sir Robert Gifford , a tall , portentous - looking man , who had black beetling brows , like tufts of black horse- hair ...
... hair , came mincingly into the witness - box . He held for a long time what seemed to be an amiable conversation with Sir Robert Gifford , a tall , portentous - looking man , who had black beetling brows , like tufts of black horse- hair ...
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