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... knew nothing whatever of that great world . I had never been further away from our farm than just to Canterbury school , to Hythe market , to Romney market . Our farm nestled down under the steep , brown downs , just beside the Roman ...
... knew nothing whatever of that great world . I had never been further away from our farm than just to Canterbury school , to Hythe market , to Romney market . Our farm nestled down under the steep , brown downs , just beside the Roman ...
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... knew well enough , both of us . They were coming in force from Canterbury way down to the Marsh . It had cost Ralph a pretty penny ; but , once in the hands of the smugglers , his cousin and Castro would be safe enough from the runners ...
... knew well enough , both of us . They were coming in force from Canterbury way down to the Marsh . It had cost Ralph a pretty penny ; but , once in the hands of the smugglers , his cousin and Castro would be safe enough from the runners ...
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... knew it was the Free Traders from that ; for except between banks they kept to the soft roadsides as if it were an article of faith . The noise of hoofs became that of an army . The runners began to consult . The shadow called Thoms was ...
... knew it was the Free Traders from that ; for except between banks they kept to the soft roadsides as if it were an article of faith . The noise of hoofs became that of an army . The runners began to consult . The shadow called Thoms was ...
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... knew said their watchword , " Snuff and enough , " loudly , and then , " What's agate ? " " Someone else answered , " It's Rooksby , it's Sir Ralph . " The voice interrupted sharply , " No names , now . I don't want hanging . " The hand ...
... knew said their watchword , " Snuff and enough , " loudly , and then , " What's agate ? " " Someone else answered , " It's Rooksby , it's Sir Ralph . " The voice interrupted sharply , " No names , now . I don't want hanging . " The hand ...
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... knew it at once after I'd let you go . I ought to have kept you out of it . You came near being murdered . And to think of it —you , her brother — to be -" " Oh , it's all right , " I said gayly , " it's all right . You've to stand by ...
... knew it at once after I'd let you go . I ought to have kept you out of it . You came near being murdered . And to think of it —you , her brother — to be -" " Oh , it's all right , " I said gayly , " it's all right . You've to stand by ...
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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...