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... heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed everything , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the color of a wrinkled pippin . It was the face of a Roman mother , tight - lipped , brown ...
... heart cherry . He used to spend his days in a hooded chair . My mother managed everything , leading an out - of - door life which gave her face the color of a wrinkled pippin . It was the face of a Roman mother , tight - lipped , brown ...
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... heart , too . It was like a game of hide - and - seek , and yet it was life at last . Everything grew silent again , and I began to think I had missed my time . Down below in the plain , a great way off , a dog was barking continuously ...
... heart , too . It was like a game of hide - and - seek , and yet it was life at last . Everything grew silent again , and I began to think I had missed my time . Down below in the plain , a great way off , a dog was barking continuously ...
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... heart , intermittent — a muffled thud on turf , and a faint clink of iron . It seemed to die away unheard by the runner beside me . Presently there was a crackling of the short pine branches , a rustle , and a hoarse whisper said from ...
... heart , intermittent — a muffled thud on turf , and a faint clink of iron . It seemed to die away unheard by the runner beside me . Presently there was a crackling of the short pine branches , a rustle , and a hoarse whisper said from ...
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... heart — a thing that bounded and leapt within my chest , a little sickeningly . The other details I forget . Jack Rangsley was a tall , big - boned , thin man , with something sinister in the lines of his horseman's cloak , and ...
... heart — a thing that bounded and leapt within my chest , a little sickeningly . The other details I forget . Jack Rangsley was a tall , big - boned , thin man , with something sinister in the lines of his horseman's cloak , and ...
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... heart began to beat softly and insistently — out of sympathy . Suddenly , from the deep shadow of the cloud above the sea , a yellow light flashed silently out — very small , very distant , very short - lived . Rangsley heaved a deep ...
... heart began to beat softly and insistently — out of sympathy . Suddenly , from the deep shadow of the cloud above the sea , a yellow light flashed silently out — very small , very distant , very short - lived . Rangsley heaved a deep ...
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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...