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Page 5
... fire , inscribing " ideas every now and then in a pocket - book . I think he was writing an epic poem , and I think he was happy in an ineffectual way . He had thin red hair , untidy for want of a valet , a shining , deli- cate , hooked ...
... fire , inscribing " ideas every now and then in a pocket - book . I think he was writing an epic poem , and I think he was happy in an ineffectual way . He had thin red hair , untidy for want of a valet , a shining , deli- cate , hooked ...
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... fire , and knew pretty well what was going on outside . There would be long whistles in the dark , and when we found men lurking in our barns we feigned not to see them — it was safer so . The smugglers — the Free Traders , they called ...
... fire , and knew pretty well what was going on outside . There would be long whistles in the dark , and when we found men lurking in our barns we feigned not to see them — it was safer so . The smugglers — the Free Traders , they called ...
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... fires of the limekilns glowed at the base , sending up a blood - red dust of sullen smoke . " I'll swear they think they've dropped straight into hell . 66 66 ' You'll have to cut the country , John , " he added suddenly , they'll have ...
... fires of the limekilns glowed at the base , sending up a blood - red dust of sullen smoke . " I'll swear they think they've dropped straight into hell . 66 66 ' You'll have to cut the country , John , " he added suddenly , they'll have ...
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... fire — his puchero and tortillas and rolled for him his provision of cigarettes for the day . Every morning he marched up to the Casa , like a courtier , to attend on his king . I never saw him eat or drink anything there . He leaned a ...
... fire — his puchero and tortillas and rolled for him his provision of cigarettes for the day . Every morning he marched up to the Casa , like a courtier , to attend on his king . I never saw him eat or drink anything there . He leaned a ...
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... fire of deathless conviction . " It is not true . You know it is not true . ' " " He was speechless for a time ; then , shaking and stammering with that inward rage that seemed to heave like molten lava in his breast , without ever ...
... fire of deathless conviction . " It is not true . You know it is not true . ' " " He was speechless for a time ; then , shaking and stammering with that inward rage that seemed to heave like molten lava in his breast , without ever ...
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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...