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... side ; the legs , one bent , the other bowing a little back — this was the attitude of Seraphina's father . Having imperiously thrust the door of the inner room open , he remained immovable , with no intention of entering , and called ...
... side ; the legs , one bent , the other bowing a little back — this was the attitude of Seraphina's father . Having imperiously thrust the door of the inner room open , he remained immovable , with no intention of entering , and called ...
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... side of the Street , and the shepherds on the downs used to see of nights a dead - and- 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 ...
... side of the Street , and the shepherds on the downs used to see of nights a dead - and- 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 ...
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... side door opened , and I saw into a lighted room filled with wreaths of smoke . A paunchy man in a bob wig , with a blue coat and Windsor buttons , holding a churchwarden pipe in his right hand and a pewter quart in his left , came ...
... side door opened , and I saw into a lighted room filled with wreaths of smoke . A paunchy man in a bob wig , with a blue coat and Windsor buttons , holding a churchwarden pipe in his right hand and a pewter quart in his left , came ...
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... side , and his great hump portending over his little white face , and ruffling up his ragged black hair . Mrs. Macdonald clacked all the scandal of the Vale , and the Buckatoro Journal got the benefit of it all , with adornments . For ...
... side , and his great hump portending over his little white face , and ruffling up his ragged black hair . Mrs. Macdonald clacked all the scandal of the Vale , and the Buckatoro Journal got the benefit of it all , with adornments . For ...
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... side , and said , " Here , Old- ham ; you lend a hand to duck the little toad . " It was the sort of thing that the thirsty climate of Jamaica rendered frequent enough . Oldham dropped his glass and protested . Macdonald continued ...
... side , and said , " Here , Old- ham ; you lend a hand to duck the little toad . " It was the sort of thing that the thirsty climate of Jamaica rendered frequent enough . Oldham dropped his glass and protested . Macdonald continued ...
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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...