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... round our foot - hills . You are to remember that I 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 ...
... round our foot - hills . You are to remember that I 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 ...
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... round them . . . . " The great horses formed an irregular half - circle round us ; men descended clumsily , like sacks of corn . The lanthorn was seized and flashed upon us ; there was a confused hubbub . I caught my own name . " Yes ...
... round them . . . . " The great horses formed an irregular half - circle round us ; men descended clumsily , like sacks of corn . The lanthorn was seized and flashed upon us ; there was a confused hubbub . I caught my own name . " Yes ...
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... brother — to be -" " Oh , it's all right , " I said gayly , " it's all right . You've to stand by Veronica . I've no one to my back . Good - night , good- by . " I pulled my horse's head round and galloped down the PART FIRST 19.
... brother — to be -" " Oh , it's all right , " I said gayly , " it's all right . You've to stand by Veronica . I've no one to my back . Good - night , good- by . " I pulled my horse's head round and galloped down the PART FIRST 19.
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... round apprehensively . Carlos said , " The senor , my cousin , wishes for a Mr. Mac- donald . You know him , senor ? " Ramon made a dry gesture of perfect acquaintance . " I think I have seen him just now , " he said . " I will make ...
... round apprehensively . Carlos said , " The senor , my cousin , wishes for a Mr. Mac- donald . You know him , senor ? " Ramon made a dry gesture of perfect acquaintance . " I think I have seen him just now , " he said . " I will make ...
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... round him , then he looked at me . He made an extraordinary swift motion with his right hand , and I saw that he was facing me with a long steel blade dis- played . Carlos continued to cough . The thing seemed odd , laughable still ...
... round him , then he looked at me . He made an extraordinary swift motion with his right hand , and I saw that he was facing me with a long steel blade dis- played . Carlos continued to cough . The thing seemed odd , laughable still ...
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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...