Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1Louis Conard, 1916 - 276 pages |
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Page 19
... Turning with that finished courtesy of attitude , movement , voice , which was his obvious characteristic , he had said with delicate playfulness : " Come along and quench your thirst with us , Mr. McNab ! " Perhaps that was it . A man ...
... Turning with that finished courtesy of attitude , movement , voice , which was his obvious characteristic , he had said with delicate playfulness : " Come along and quench your thirst with us , Mr. McNab ! " Perhaps that was it . A man ...
Page 20
... turned up in Timor . Why in Timor , of all places in the world , no one knows . Well , he was mooning about Delli , that highly pestilential place , possibly in search of some undiscovered facts , when he came in the street upon ...
... turned up in Timor . Why in Timor , of all places in the world , no one knows . Well , he was mooning about Delli , that highly pestilential place , possibly in search of some undiscovered facts , when he came in the street upon ...
Page 29
... turning up in Timor or anywhere else was no more wonderful than the settling of a sparrow on one's window - sill at any ... turned them on the discomposed Morrison . " In what way , may I ask ? " he continued with austere polite- ness ...
... turning up in Timor or anywhere else was no more wonderful than the settling of a sparrow on one's window - sill at any ... turned them on the discomposed Morrison . " In what way , may I ask ? " he continued with austere polite- ness ...
Page 43
... down pretty low for a man who turned up his nose at my table - d'hôte ! " He winked with immense malice . A bell started ringing , and he led the way to the dining - room as if into a temple , very grave , with the VICTORY . 43.
... down pretty low for a man who turned up his nose at my table - d'hôte ! " He winked with immense malice . A bell started ringing , and he led the way to the dining - room as if into a temple , very grave , with the VICTORY . 43.
Page 49
... turned hermit from shame . That's what the devil does when he's found out . " Hermit . This was the latest of the more or less witty labels applied to Heyst during his aimless pilgrimage in this section of the tropical belt , where the ...
... turned hermit from shame . That's what the devil does when he's found out . " Hermit . This was the latest of the more or less witty labels applied to Heyst during his aimless pilgrimage in this section of the tropical belt , where the ...
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