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... felt hands fumbling with a knot at the back of my head . " You're all right , " he said again . The hubbub of voices ceased suddenly . " Now , lads , bring ' em along . " A voice I knew said their watchword , " Snuff and enough ...
... felt hands fumbling with a knot at the back of my head . " You're all right , " he said again . The hubbub of voices ceased suddenly . " Now , lads , bring ' em along . " A voice I knew said their watchword , " Snuff and enough ...
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... felt glad and flattered that a personage so romantic should deem me a fit companion for himself . He went forward as if with some purpose . Some days afterwards the second mate sent for me to his cabin . He had been on the sick list ...
... felt glad and flattered that a personage so romantic should deem me a fit companion for himself . He went forward as if with some purpose . Some days afterwards the second mate sent for me to his cabin . He had been on the sick list ...
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... felt frightened . 66 Hanged by the neck , " he repeated ; and then added , " Young fellow , you scoot . Take a fool's advice , and scoot . That Castro is a blame fool , anyhow . Yeh want men for that job . Men , I tell you . " He ...
... felt frightened . 66 Hanged by the neck , " he repeated ; and then added , " Young fellow , you scoot . Take a fool's advice , and scoot . That Castro is a blame fool , anyhow . Yeh want men for that job . Men , I tell you . " He ...
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... felt , how inexplicably unhappy . Presently the reason was made clear . I was homesick . I gave no further thought to the second mate . I looked at the harbor we were entering , and thought of the home I had left so eagerly . After all ...
... felt , how inexplicably unhappy . Presently the reason was made clear . I was homesick . I gave no further thought to the second mate . I looked at the harbor we were entering , and thought of the home I had left so eagerly . After all ...
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A Novel Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. " Take a fool's advice , and scoot " I felt that the light of Romance was going out.
A Novel Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. " Take a fool's advice , and scoot " I felt that the light of Romance was going out.
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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...