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... Kingston , I saw the door open before the figure of an old man with the tired , long , white face , that day I am not likely to forget . I remember the chilly smell of the typical West Indian store , the indescribable smell of damp ...
... Kingston , I saw the door open before the figure of an old man with the tired , long , white face , that day I am not likely to forget . I remember the chilly smell of the typical West Indian store , the indescribable smell of damp ...
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... Kingston . To my asseverations Macdonald re- turned nothing but a series of minute " humphs . " I don't know what overcame his scruples ; he had shown no signs of yielding , but suddenly turning on his heel made a motion with one of his ...
... Kingston . To my asseverations Macdonald re- turned nothing but a series of minute " humphs . " I don't know what overcame his scruples ; he had shown no signs of yielding , but suddenly turning on his heel made a motion with one of his ...
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... Kingston and Spanish Town ; his cargoes came from all the seas . All the planters and all the official class in the island had dealings with him . " It was most natural that the hidalgo , your respected cousin , should consult me if he ...
... Kingston and Spanish Town ; his cargoes came from all the seas . All the planters and all the official class in the island had dealings with him . " It was most natural that the hidalgo , your respected cousin , should consult me if he ...
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... Kingston ; I myself have bought his office furniture . " I looked at him and wondered , for all his impassivity , what he knew — what , in the depths of his inscrutable Spanish brain , his dark eyes concealed . He bowed to me a little ...
... Kingston ; I myself have bought his office furniture . " I looked at him and wondered , for all his impassivity , what he knew — what , in the depths of his inscrutable Spanish brain , his dark eyes concealed . He bowed to me a little ...
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... Kingston and Spanish Town . " Ra mon had seemed mysterious when I had seen him in company with Carlos and Castro ; but re - introduced in the homely atmosphere of the Macdonalds , he had become merely a saturnine , tall , dusky ...
... Kingston and Spanish Town . " Ra mon had seemed mysterious when I had seen him in company with Carlos and Castro ; but re - introduced in the homely atmosphere of the Macdonalds , he had become merely a saturnine , tall , dusky ...
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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...