Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1Louis Conard, 1916 - 276 pages |
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... feelings ? Thus reasoned men in reputable business offices where he had his entrée as a person who came out East with letters of introduction - and modest letters of credit , too - some years before these coal - outcrops began to crop ...
... feelings ? Thus reasoned men in reputable business offices where he had his entrée as a person who came out East with letters of introduction - and modest letters of credit , too - some years before these coal - outcrops began to crop ...
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... feelings , he made his great renunciation . He cast off the abiding illusion of his existence . " No. No. They are ... feelings perfectly . No decent feeling was ever scorned by Heyst . But he was incapable of outward cordiality of ...
... feelings , he made his great renunciation . He cast off the abiding illusion of his existence . " No. No. They are ... feelings perfectly . No decent feeling was ever scorned by Heyst . But he was incapable of outward cordiality of ...
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... feelings Morrison's gratitude insisted on Heyst's partnership in the great discovery . Ultimately we heard that Morrison had gone home through the Suez Canal in order to push the magnifi- cent coal idea personally in London . He parted ...
... feelings Morrison's gratitude insisted on Heyst's partnership in the great discovery . Ultimately we heard that Morrison had gone home through the Suez Canal in order to push the magnifi- cent coal idea personally in London . He parted ...
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... feeling , I think , though of course he had no more polish than the rest of us . We were naturally a hail - fellow - well - met crowd , with standards of our own — no worse , I daresay , than other people's ; but polish was not one of ...
... feeling , I think , though of course he had no more polish than the rest of us . We were naturally a hail - fellow - well - met crowd , with standards of our own — no worse , I daresay , than other people's ; but polish was not one of ...
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... feelings were , he told us , those of bewildered resignation ; but of course that was no more visible to the others than the emotions of a turtle when it withdraws into its shell . " It seems unreasonable , " he murmured thought- fully ...
... feelings were , he told us , those of bewildered resignation ; but of course that was no more visible to the others than the emotions of a turtle when it withdraws into its shell . " It seems unreasonable , " he murmured thought- fully ...
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