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... dead - and- gone Rooksby , Sir Peter that was , ride upon it past the quarry with his head under his arm . I don't think I believed in him , but I believed in the smugglers who shared the highway with that horrible ghost . It is ...
... dead - and- gone Rooksby , Sir Peter that was , ride upon it past the quarry with his head under his arm . I don't think I believed in him , but I believed in the smugglers who shared the highway with that horrible ghost . It is ...
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... dead light I thought I caught the outlines of a man's hat down among the tossing lines of the bracken . I whis- pered loudly : 66 ' Carlos ! Carlos ! " There was a moment of hoarse whispering ; a sudden gruff sound . A shaft of blazing ...
... dead light I thought I caught the outlines of a man's hat down among the tossing lines of the bracken . I whis- pered loudly : 66 ' Carlos ! Carlos ! " There was a moment of hoarse whispering ; a sudden gruff sound . A shaft of blazing ...
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... dead . I am very ill . " He was undoubtedly ill . Campaigning in Spain , exposure in England in a rainy time , and then the ducking when we came on board , had done him no good . He looked moodily at the sea . I will try- " " " I wish ...
... dead . I am very ill . " He was undoubtedly ill . Campaigning in Spain , exposure in England in a rainy time , and then the ducking when we came on board , had done him no good . He looked moodily at the sea . I will try- " " " I wish ...
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... dead reckoning yeh hevn't had call to make . Eh ? " " What do you mean ? " I asked , bewildered . He looked at me , grinning , half naked , with amused contempt , for quite a long time , and at last offered sardonically to open my eyes ...
... dead reckoning yeh hevn't had call to make . Eh ? " " What do you mean ? " I asked , bewildered . He looked at me , grinning , half naked , with amused contempt , for quite a long time , and at last offered sardonically to open my eyes ...
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... dead all over . I happened to look downwards at my hands ; they were extraordinarily white , with the veins standing out all over them . They felt as if they had been sodden in water , and it was quite a long time before they recovered ...
... dead all over . I happened to look downwards at my hands ; they were extraordinarily white , with the veins standing out all over them . They felt as if they had been sodden in water , and it was quite a long time before they recovered ...
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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...