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Page 94
... Lugareņos . Now we go . " I saw , as in a dream of stress and violence , some men making ready to cast off the schooner , and then , in a supreme effort , an effort of lusty youth and strength , which I remember to this day , I ...
... Lugareņos . Now we go . " I saw , as in a dream of stress and violence , some men making ready to cast off the schooner , and then , in a supreme effort , an effort of lusty youth and strength , which I remember to this day , I ...
Page 123
... Lugarenos — villagers . They were sea - thieves , but they were dangerous . At night , from these clusters of hovels surrounded by the banana plantations , there issued a villainous noise , the humming of hived scoundrels . Lights ...
... Lugarenos — villagers . They were sea - thieves , but they were dangerous . At night , from these clusters of hovels surrounded by the banana plantations , there issued a villainous noise , the humming of hived scoundrels . Lights ...
Page 130
... Lugarenos . In Ha- vana he had for him the reigning powers ; in Rio Medio the lowest outcasts of the island . This last was the most dangerous aspect of his power for us , and also his weakest point . This was the touch of something ...
... Lugarenos . In Ha- vana he had for him the reigning powers ; in Rio Medio the lowest outcasts of the island . This last was the most dangerous aspect of his power for us , and also his weakest point . This was the touch of something ...
Page 133
... Lugareņos of the bay . I have known him come like this before . " I remembered that in the morning , while dressing , I had glanced out of the narrow outside window of my room , and had seen a brown , mounted figure passing on the sands ...
... Lugareņos of the bay . I have known him come like this before . " I remembered that in the morning , while dressing , I had glanced out of the narrow outside window of my room , and had seen a brown , mounted figure passing on the sands ...
Page 137
... Lugarenos had stolen in unnoticed by me . stifled metallic ringing , as of a guitar carried under a cloak . " Vengeance on the heretic Inglez ! " " Come away ! They may suddenly open the gate and fall upon us with sticks . " " " ' My ...
... Lugarenos had stolen in unnoticed by me . stifled metallic ringing , as of a guitar carried under a cloak . " Vengeance on the heretic Inglez ! " " Come away ! They may suddenly open the gate and fall upon us with sticks . " " " ' My ...
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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...