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Page 9
... fell in with an elderly hunks just returned from West Indies , who asks the time at the door of a shipping agent . Castro pulls out a watch , and the old fellow jumps on it , vows it's his own , taken from him years before by some ...
... fell in with an elderly hunks just returned from West Indies , who asks the time at the door of a shipping agent . Castro pulls out a watch , and the old fellow jumps on it , vows it's his own , taken from him years before by some ...
Page 18
... fell upon us , white , damp , and clogging . Ralph reined his horse beside mine . " I'm sorry , " he began again , " I'm miserably sorry I got you into this scrape . I swear I wouldn't have had it happen , not for a thousand pounds ...
... fell upon us , white , damp , and clogging . Ralph reined his horse beside mine . " I'm sorry , " he began again , " I'm miserably sorry I got you into this scrape . I swear I wouldn't have had it happen , not for a thousand pounds ...
Page 24
... fell from the moon right above our heads . We embarked , and , as we drew further out , the land turned to a shadow , spotted here and there with little lights . Behind us a cock crowed . The shingle crashed at intervals beneath the ...
... fell from the moon right above our heads . We embarked , and , as we drew further out , the land turned to a shadow , spotted here and there with little lights . Behind us a cock crowed . The shingle crashed at intervals beneath the ...
Page 26
... fell asleep . Old Rangsley was sent ashore with the pilot . It was a new and strange life to me , opening there suddenly enough . The Thames was one of the usual West Indiamen ; but to me even the very ropes and spars , the sea , and ...
... fell asleep . Old Rangsley was sent ashore with the pilot . It was a new and strange life to me , opening there suddenly enough . The Thames was one of the usual West Indiamen ; but to me even the very ropes and spars , the sea , and ...
Page 38
... fell through the scuttle in a square patch . I lowered my voice , too . 66 " What life ? " I asked . Life in my uncle's palace , " he said , so sweetly and persuasively that the suggestiveness of it caused a thrill in me . His uncle ...
... fell through the scuttle in a square patch . I lowered my voice , too . 66 " What life ? " I asked . Life in my uncle's palace , " he said , so sweetly and persuasively that the suggestiveness of it caused a thrill in me . His uncle ...
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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...