Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1Louis Conard, 1916 - 276 pages |
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Page 18
... face and all the hair off the top of his head , and his red - gold pair of horizontal moustaches had grown to really noble proportions , a certain disreputable white man fastened upon him an epithet . Putting down with a shaking hand a ...
... face and all the hair off the top of his head , and his red - gold pair of horizontal moustaches had grown to really noble proportions , a certain disreputable white man fastened upon him an epithet . Putting down with a shaking hand a ...
Page 24
... face of this passion Heyst made , with his eyebrows , a slight motion of surprise which would not have been misplaced in a drawing - room . Mor- rison's despairing reserve had broken down . He had been wandering with a dry throat all ...
... face of this passion Heyst made , with his eyebrows , a slight motion of surprise which would not have been misplaced in a drawing - room . Mor- rison's despairing reserve had broken down . He had been wandering with a dry throat all ...
Page 25
... face . His white clothes , which he had not taken off for three days , were dingy . He looked already gone to the bad , past redemption . The sight was shocking to Heyst ; but he let nothing of it appear in his bearing , concealing his ...
... face . His white clothes , which he had not taken off for three days , were dingy . He looked already gone to the bad , past redemption . The sight was shocking to Heyst ; but he let nothing of it appear in his bearing , concealing his ...
Page 47
... my owner of it , " said the con- scientious commander of the Sissie . His owner had a face like an ancient lemon . He was small and wizened — which was strange , because generally a Chinaman , as he grows in prosperity , VICTORY . 47.
... my owner of it , " said the con- scientious commander of the Sissie . His owner had a face like an ancient lemon . He was small and wizened — which was strange , because generally a Chinaman , as he grows in prosperity , VICTORY . 47.
Page 48
... face . " I never see him . " To me , on occasions , he would say : " I haven't a doubt he's there . He hides . It's very unpleasant . " Davidson was a little vexed with Heyst . " Funny thing , " he went on . " Of all the people I speak ...
... face . " I never see him . " To me , on occasions , he would say : " I haven't a doubt he's there . He hides . It's very unpleasant . " Davidson was a little vexed with Heyst . " Funny thing , " he went on . " Of all the people I speak ...
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