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... There is , from that point of view , a deplorable lack of concentration in coal . Now , if a coal- mine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket - but it can't ! At the same time , there is a fascination in coal , the supreme commodity ...
... There is , from that point of view , a deplorable lack of concentration in coal . Now , if a coal- mine could be put into one's waistcoat pocket - but it can't ! At the same time , there is a fascination in coal , the supreme commodity ...
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... There was seldom enough wind to blow a feather along . On most evenings of the year Heyst could have sat outside with a naked candle to read one of the books left him by his late father . It was not a mean store . But he never did that ...
... There was seldom enough wind to blow a feather along . On most evenings of the year Heyst could have sat outside with a naked candle to read one of the books left him by his late father . It was not a mean store . But he never did that ...
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... There was a coal - mine there , with an outcrop in the hillside less than five hundred yards from the rickety wharf and the imposing blackboard . The company's object had been to get hold of all the outcrops on tropical islands and ...
... There was a coal - mine there , with an outcrop in the hillside less than five hundred yards from the rickety wharf and the imposing blackboard . The company's object had been to get hold of all the outcrops on tropical islands and ...
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... there was some difficulty in making him out . He was not a traveller . A traveller arrives and departs , goes on somewhere . Heyst did not depart . I met a man once - the manager of the branch of the Oriental Banking Corporation in ...
... there was some difficulty in making him out . He was not a traveller . A traveller arrives and departs , goes on somewhere . Heyst did not depart . I met a man once - the manager of the branch of the Oriental Banking Corporation in ...
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... There's Facts I don't know if old Tesman agreed with him or not , but he must have spoken about it , because , for a time , our - man got the name of “ Hard Facts . " He had the singular good fortune that his sayings stuck to him and ...
... There's Facts I don't know if old Tesman agreed with him or not , but he must have spoken about it , because , for a time , our - man got the name of “ Hard Facts . " He had the singular good fortune that his sayings stuck to him and ...
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