Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 2Louis Conard, 1916 |
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... feelings by the sort of plain speaking that would have been necessary . His mind was like a white- walled , pure chamber , furnished with , say , six straw- bottomed chairs , and he was always placing and displacing them in various ...
... feelings by the sort of plain speaking that would have been necessary . His mind was like a white- walled , pure chamber , furnished with , say , six straw- bottomed chairs , and he was always placing and displacing them in various ...
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... feeling on his face with that intense interest which his person awakened in her mind and in her heart . But it soon passed away , leaving only a moody expression . " It's difficult to resist where nothing matters , " he observed . " And ...
... feeling on his face with that intense interest which his person awakened in her mind and in her heart . But it soon passed away , leaving only a moody expression . " It's difficult to resist where nothing matters , " he observed . " And ...
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... feeling strangely unwilling to move , to touch her . " Nothing . " She swallowed painfully . " Of course it can't be . What name did you say ? I didn't hear . it properly . " " Name ? " repeated Heyst dazedly . " I only men- tioned ...
... feeling strangely unwilling to move , to touch her . " Nothing . " She swallowed painfully . " Of course it can't be . What name did you say ? I didn't hear . it properly . " " Name ? " repeated Heyst dazedly . " I only men- tioned ...
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... feeling . " But , " she went on , " the name stuck in my head , it seems ; and when you mentioned it— " " It broke the spell , " muttered Heyst in angry dis- appointment , as if he had been deceived in some hope . The girl , from her ...
... feeling . " But , " she went on , " the name stuck in my head , it seems ; and when you mentioned it— " " It broke the spell , " muttered Heyst in angry dis- appointment , as if he had been deceived in some hope . The girl , from her ...
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... feeling , in this moment of perfect quietness , that in holding her surrendered hand he had found a closer communion than they had ever achieved before . But even then there still lingered in him a sense of incompleteness not altogether ...
... feeling , in this moment of perfect quietness , that in holding her surrendered hand he had found a closer communion than they had ever achieved before . But even then there still lingered in him a sense of incompleteness not altogether ...
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