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... sight is not very good , my poor little father — there he is , your Ramon . " The warm reflection of the light behind her , gilding the curve of her face from ear to chin , lost itself in the shadows of black lace falling from dark hair ...
... sight is not very good , my poor little father — there he is , your Ramon . " The warm reflection of the light behind her , gilding the curve of her face from ear to chin , lost itself in the shadows of black lace falling from dark hair ...
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... sight against the white sky , a confused crowd of ominous things . 66 " " Turn that lanthorn off'n me , " the horseman said . Don't you see you frighten my horse ? Now , boys , get round them . . . . " The great horses formed an ...
... sight against the white sky , a confused crowd of ominous things . 66 " " Turn that lanthorn off'n me , " the horseman said . Don't you see you frighten my horse ? Now , boys , get round them . . . . " The great horses formed an ...
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... sight below me of the silver head and the deep red ears of the drunken uncle of Rangsley . He had been one of the most redoubtable of the family , a man of immense strength and cunning , but a confirmed habit of consuming a pint and a ...
... sight below me of the silver head and the deep red ears of the drunken uncle of Rangsley . He had been one of the most redoubtable of the family , a man of immense strength and cunning , but a confirmed habit of consuming a pint and a ...
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... sight of him at evenfall listening to Mrs. Macdonald ; he would be sitting beside her ham- mock on the veranda , his head very much down on his breast , very much on one side , and his great hump portending over his little white face ...
... sight of him at evenfall listening to Mrs. Macdonald ; he would be sitting beside her ham- mock on the veranda , his head very much down on his breast , very much on one side , and his great hump portending over his little white face ...
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... sight , and I was left facing the admiral . He stared at me contemptuously . I was streaming with perspiration and up- braiding him for assaulting a cripple . " " I know him . The admiral said , " Oh , that's what you think ? I will ...
... sight , and I was left facing the admiral . He stared at me contemptuously . I was streaming with perspiration and up- braiding him for assaulting a cripple . " " I know him . The admiral said , " Oh , that's what you think ? I will ...
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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...