Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1Louis Conard, 1916 - 276 pages |
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Page 7
... stand at the head of a mere novel . There was also the possibility of falling under the suspicion of com- mercial astuteness deceiving the public into the belief that the book had something to do with war . Of that , however , I was not ...
... stand at the head of a mere novel . There was also the possibility of falling under the suspicion of com- mercial astuteness deceiving the public into the belief that the book had something to do with war . Of that , however , I was not ...
Page 8
... stand , in the same hopeful spirit in which some simple citizen of Old Rome would have " accepted the Omen . " The second point on which I wish to offer a remark is the existence ( in the novel ) of a person named Schomberg . That I ...
... stand , in the same hopeful spirit in which some simple citizen of Old Rome would have " accepted the Omen . " The second point on which I wish to offer a remark is the existence ( in the novel ) of a person named Schomberg . That I ...
Page 32
... stand , was not proud of the episode , and he was afraid of being unmercifully chaffed . " An old bird like me ! To let myself be trapped by those damned Portuguese rascals ! I should never hear the last of it . We must keep it dark ...
... stand , was not proud of the episode , and he was afraid of being unmercifully chaffed . " An old bird like me ! To let myself be trapped by those damned Portuguese rascals ! I should never hear the last of it . We must keep it dark ...
Page 102
... stands with an aggressive and masterful gait . On the lap of that dress there lay , unclasped and idle , a pair of small hands , not very white , attached to well - formed arms . The next detail Heyst was led to observe was the ...
... stands with an aggressive and masterful gait . On the lap of that dress there lay , unclasped and idle , a pair of small hands , not very white , attached to well - formed arms . The next detail Heyst was led to observe was the ...
Page 105
... stand what he said . One could not tell what nation- ality these women were , except that they were of all sorts . But she was astonished almost more by the near presence of the man himself , by this largely bald head , by the ...
... stand what he said . One could not tell what nation- ality these women were , except that they were of all sorts . But she was astonished almost more by the near presence of the man himself , by this largely bald head , by the ...
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