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Page 15
... close to me : " Now , you runners — and you , John 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 ...
... close to me : " Now , you runners — and you , John 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 ...
Page 22
... close behind my ear . " I know who they are . There were bills out for them this morning . I'd blow them , and take the reward , but for you and Squahre Rooksby . They're handy with their knives , too , I fancy . You mind me , and look ...
... close behind my ear . " I know who they are . There were bills out for them this morning . I'd blow them , and take the reward , but for you and Squahre Rooksby . They're handy with their knives , too , I fancy . You mind me , and look ...
Page 32
... close to us then . Carlos looked at me with an expression of affection that a little shamed my lightness of tone : " I love you much more than a kinsman , Juan , " he said . " I wish you could come with me . I try to arrange it . Later ...
... close to us then . Carlos looked at me with an expression of affection that a little shamed my lightness of tone : " I love you much more than a kinsman , Juan , " he said . " I wish you could come with me . I try to arrange it . Later ...
Page 47
... close his ears and pretend not to hear . The planters had another grievance the pirates in the Gulf of Mexico . There was one in particular , a certain El Demonio or Diableto , who practically sealed the Florida passage ; it was hardly ...
... close his ears and pretend not to hear . The planters had another grievance the pirates in the Gulf of Mexico . There was one in particular , a certain El Demonio or Diableto , who practically sealed the Florida passage ; it was hardly ...
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... close to us , and handed it to her father , who had leant a little forward in his chair . Every movement of hers affected me with an intimate joy ; it was as if I had been waiting to see just that carriage of the neck , just that proud ...
... close to us , and handed it to her father , who had leant a little forward in his chair . Every movement of hers affected me with an intimate joy ; it was as if I had been waiting to see just that carriage of the neck , just that proud ...
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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...