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... eyes were gray — the gray of black , not of blue . For a moment they looked me straight in the face , reflectively , unconcerned , and then traveled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance — remember I was young on that day — had ...
... eyes were gray — the gray of black , not of blue . For a moment they looked me straight in the face , reflectively , unconcerned , and then traveled to the spectacles of old Ramon . This glance — remember I was young on that day — had ...
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... eyes — a good mate for Rooksby . Rooksby had foreign relations , too . The uncle from whom he inherited the Priory had married a Riego , a Cas- tilian , during the Peninsular war . He had been a prisoner at the time he had died in Spain ...
... eyes — a good mate for Rooksby . Rooksby had foreign relations , too . The uncle from whom he inherited the Priory had married a Riego , a Cas- tilian , during the Peninsular war . He had been a prisoner at the time he had died in Spain ...
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... eyes . A man sprang at me and thrust some- thing cold and knobby into my neckcloth . The light continued to blaze into my eyes ; it moved upwards and shone on a red waistcoat dashed with gilt buttons . I was being arrested . . . . " In ...
... eyes . A man sprang at me and thrust some- thing cold and knobby into my neckcloth . The light continued to blaze into my eyes ; it moved upwards and shone on a red waistcoat dashed with gilt buttons . I was being arrested . . . . " In ...
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... eyes . The fact that he was sailing in uncomfortable circumstances detracted little ; nor did his clothes , which , at the worst , were better than any I had ever had . And he wore them with an air and a grace . He had prob- ably been ...
... eyes . The fact that he was sailing in uncomfortable circumstances detracted little ; nor did his clothes , which , at the worst , were better than any I had ever had . And he wore them with an air and a grace . He had prob- ably been ...
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... eyes agape . He spat again , and waved a claw towards the forward bulk- head . " They'll do it for yeh , " he said . " You're such a green goose , it makes me sick a bit . You hevn't reckoned out the chances , not quite . It's a kind of ...
... eyes agape . He spat again , and waved a claw towards the forward bulk- head . " They'll do it for yeh , " he said . " You're such a green goose , it makes me sick a bit . You hevn't reckoned out the chances , not quite . It's a kind of ...
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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...