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... Lena . She remarked after a pause : " I was not very far from you . " 66 Apparently you were not near enough for me . " " You could have called if you wanted me , " she said . " And I wasn't so long doing my hair . " " Apparently it was ...
... Lena . She remarked after a pause : " I was not very far from you . " 66 Apparently you were not near enough for me . " " You could have called if you wanted me , " she said . " And I wasn't so long doing my hair . " " Apparently it was ...
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... Lena entered the shade of the forest path which crossed the island , and which , near its highest point , had been blocked by felled trees . But their inten- tion was not to go so far . After keeping to the path for some distance , they ...
... Lena entered the shade of the forest path which crossed the island , and which , near its highest point , had been blocked by felled trees . But their inten- tion was not to go so far . After keeping to the path for some distance , they ...
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... , with whom he did not yet know how to live ; that human being so near and still so strange , gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life . WIT IV ITH her knees drawn up , Lena rested VICTORY 159.
... , with whom he did not yet know how to live ; that human being so near and still so strange , gave him a greater sense of his own reality than he had ever known in all his life . WIT IV ITH her knees drawn up , Lena rested VICTORY 159.
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An Island Tale Joseph Conrad. WIT IV ITH her knees drawn up , Lena rested her elbows on them and held her head in both her hands . " Are you tired of sitting here ? " Heyst asked . An almost imperceptible negative movement of the head ...
An Island Tale Joseph Conrad. WIT IV ITH her knees drawn up , Lena rested her elbows on them and held her head in both her hands . " Are you tired of sitting here ? " Heyst asked . An almost imperceptible negative movement of the head ...
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... Lena , why are you staring like that ? Do you feel ill ? " " Heyst made as if to get on his feet . The girl extended her arm to arrest him , and he remained staring in a sitting posture , propped on one arm , observing her indefinable ...
... Lena , why are you staring like that ? Do you feel ill ? " " Heyst made as if to get on his feet . The girl extended her arm to arrest him , and he remained staring in a sitting posture , propped on one arm , observing her indefinable ...
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