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... gone out of my mind . And my day before yesterday was the day on which I , at twenty - two , stood looking at myself in the tall glass , the day on which I left my home in Kent and went , as chance willed it , out to sea with Carlos ...
... gone out of my mind . And my day before yesterday was the day on which I , at twenty - two , stood looking at myself in the tall glass , the day on which I left my home in Kent and went , as chance willed it , out to sea with Carlos ...
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... 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 impossible for ...
... 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 impossible for ...
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... gone , and I envied him his going , with his air of mystery , to some far - off lawless adventures — perhaps over there in Spain , where there were war and rebellion . Shortly afterwards Rooksby proposed for the hand of Veronica and was ...
... gone , and I envied him his going , with his air of mystery , to some far - off lawless adventures — perhaps over there in Spain , where there were war and rebellion . Shortly afterwards Rooksby proposed for the hand of Veronica and was ...
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... gone to Russia at the tail of the Grande Armee , one could not help believing . He had been most likely in the grand army of sutlers and camp - followers . He could talk convincingly of the cold , and of the snows and his escape . And ...
... gone to Russia at the tail of the Grande Armee , one could not help believing . He had been most likely in the grand army of sutlers and camp - followers . He could talk convincingly of the cold , and of the snows and his escape . And ...
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... gone with him , then , had he asked me . One day , " he repeated , with an extraordinary cadence of tone . 66 His hand was grasping mine ; it thrilled me like a woman's ; he stood shaking it very gently . " One day , " he said , " I ...
... gone with him , then , had he asked me . One day , " he repeated , with an extraordinary cadence of tone . 66 His hand was grasping mine ; it thrilled me like a woman's ; he stood shaking it very gently . " One day , " he said , " I ...
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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...