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... Kemp's farm was a hotbed of disorder . I expect it was , too ; three of our men were hung up at Canterbury on one day — for horse - stealing and arson . Anyhow , that was my mother . As for me , I was under her , and , since I had my ...
... Kemp's farm was a hotbed of disorder . I expect it was , too ; three of our men were hung up at Canterbury on one day — for horse - stealing and arson . Anyhow , that was my mother . As for me , I was under her , and , since I had my ...
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... Kemp ; come down , I say ! " I started away from the glass as if I had been taken in an act of folly . Rooksby was flicking his leg with his switch in the door- way , at the bottom of the narrow flight of stairs . He wanted to talk to ...
... Kemp ; come down , I say ! " I started away from the glass as if I had been taken in an act of folly . Rooksby was flicking his leg with his switch in the door- way , at the bottom of the narrow flight of stairs . He wanted to talk to ...
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... Kemp , " I said . The other grunted . " Hurry up , Thoms . " " But , Mr. Lillywhite , " Thoms reasoned , " he don't speak like a Dago . Split me if he do ! And we aint in a friendly country either , you know that . We can't afford to ...
... Kemp , " I said . The other grunted . " Hurry up , Thoms . " " But , Mr. Lillywhite , " Thoms reasoned , " he don't speak like a Dago . Split me if he do ! And we aint in a friendly country either , you know that . We can't afford to ...
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... Kemp , " I called , " I'm true blue . " " " " Blue be hanged ! a voice shouted back . " What be you a - doing with ... Kemp's mother's a bad ' un . An informer he is . Up with ' em ! " I was pulled down on my knees , then thrust forward ...
... Kemp , " I called , " I'm true blue . " " " " Blue be hanged ! a voice shouted back . " What be you a - doing with ... Kemp's mother's a bad ' un . An informer he is . Up with ' em ! " I was pulled down on my knees , then thrust forward ...
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... Kemp — here you be on the brink of eternity , above the old quarry . There's a sheer drop of a hundred feet . We'll tie your legs and hang you by your fingers . If you hang long enough , you'll have time to say your prayers . Look alive ...
... Kemp — here you be on the brink of eternity , above the old quarry . There's a sheer drop of a hundred feet . We'll tie your legs and hang you by your fingers . If you hang long enough , you'll have time to say your prayers . Look alive ...
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Page 41 - Here's the mahn ye were speerin' after. Here's Macdonald." It was the voice of Barnes, and the voice of the every day. I discovered that I had been tremendously upset. The pulses in my temples were throbbing, and I wanted to shut my eyes — to sleep! I was tired; Romance had departed. Barnes and the Macdonald he had found for me represented all the laborious insects of the world; all the ants who are forever hauling immensely heavy and immensely unimportant burdens up weary hillocks, down steep...