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Page 4
... fear of damaging the frail things . She raised her long hand to a white flower that clung above her ear like the pen of a clerk , and disappeared . Ramon hurried with a stiffness of immense respect towards the ancient grandee . The door ...
... fear of damaging the frail things . She raised her long hand to a white flower that clung above her ear like the pen of a clerk , and disappeared . Ramon hurried with a stiffness of immense respect towards the ancient grandee . The door ...
Page 10
... fear for his neck , which had in- creased in value since its devotion to Veronica , he would have squired his cousin . As it was , he fluttered round the idea of letting me take his place . Finally he settled it ; and I embarked on a ...
... fear for his neck , which had in- creased in value since its devotion to Veronica , he would have squired his cousin . As it was , he fluttered round the idea of letting me take his place . Finally he settled it ; and I embarked on a ...
Page 19
... fear of compromising him we waited in the shadow of trees a furlong or two down the road . He came at a trot , gave me the letter , drew me aside , and began upbraiding himself again . The others rode onwards . " Oh , it's all right ...
... fear of compromising him we waited in the shadow of trees a furlong or two down the road . He came at a trot , gave me the letter , drew me aside , and began upbraiding himself again . The others rode onwards . " Oh , it's all right ...
Page 25
... fear so much as a feeling of dreariness and disappoint- ment that had come over me , the sudden feeling that I was going not to adventure , but to death ; that here was not romance , but an end — a disenchanted surprise that it should ...
... fear so much as a feeling of dreariness and disappoint- ment that had come over me , the sudden feeling that I was going not to adventure , but to death ; that here was not romance , but an end — a disenchanted surprise that it should ...
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... fear he has been a villain , too . What do I know ? Over there in my uncle's town , there are some villains you know what I mean , one must not speak too loudly on this ship . There is a man called O'Brien , who mismanages my uncle's ...
... fear he has been a villain , too . What do I know ? Over there in my uncle's town , there are some villains you know what I mean , one must not speak too loudly on this ship . There is a man called O'Brien , who mismanages my uncle's ...
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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...