Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1Louis Conard, 1916 - 276 pages |
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Page 246
... Wang was not a common coolie . He had been a servant to white men before . The agreement between him and Heyst consisted in the exchange of a few words on the day when the last mine coolies were leaving Samburan . Heyst , leaning over ...
... Wang was not a common coolie . He had been a servant to white men before . The agreement between him and Heyst consisted in the exchange of a few words on the day when the last mine coolies were leaving Samburan . Heyst , leaning over ...
Page 247
... Wang un- emotionally , and marched off , turning his back on the wharf and the great world beyond , represented by the steamer waiting for her boats . Heyst learned presently that Wang had persuaded one of the women of the Alfuro ...
... Wang un- emotionally , and marched off , turning his back on the wharf and the great world beyond , represented by the steamer waiting for her boats . Heyst learned presently that Wang had persuaded one of the women of the Alfuro ...
Page 248
... Wang had invited them . But this was the only occasion when any sound louder than the buzzing of insects had troubled the profound silence of the clearing . The natives were never in- vited again . Wang not only knew how to live ...
... Wang had invited them . But this was the only occasion when any sound louder than the buzzing of insects had troubled the profound silence of the clearing . The natives were never in- vited again . Wang not only knew how to live ...
Page 249
... Wang had annexed all the keys . Any key left lying about vanished after Wang had passed that way . Subsequently some of them - those that did not belong to the storerooms and the empty bungalows , and could not be regarded as the common ...
... Wang had annexed all the keys . Any key left lying about vanished after Wang had passed that way . Subsequently some of them - those that did not belong to the storerooms and the empty bungalows , and could not be regarded as the common ...
Page 250
... Wang's gardening and of these precautions - there was nothing else to look at - was amused at the thought that he , in his own person , represented the market for its produce . The Chinaman had found several packets of seeds in the ...
... Wang's gardening and of these precautions - there was nothing else to look at - was amused at the thought that he , in his own person , represented the market for its produce . The Chinaman had found several packets of seeds in the ...
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