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Page 41
... Europeans and natives on the quay . After hearing this wondrous tale , Davidson went away from the hotel verandah , which was filling with Schom- berg's regular customers . Heyst's escapade was the general topic VICTORY 41.
... Europeans and natives on the quay . After hearing this wondrous tale , Davidson went away from the hotel verandah , which was filling with Schom- berg's regular customers . Heyst's escapade was the general topic VICTORY 41.
Page 54
... Schom- berg's hotel . The lamentations of string instruments issued from the building in the hotel compound , the approaches to which were decorated with Japanese paper lanterns strung up between the trunks of several big trees . Scraps ...
... Schom- berg's hotel . The lamentations of string instruments issued from the building in the hotel compound , the approaches to which were decorated with Japanese paper lanterns strung up between the trunks of several big trees . Scraps ...
Page 78
... Schom- berg - as though those means were bound to have been ex- traordinary , unheard of , inconceivable . He slapped his forehead openly before his customers ; he would sit brood- ing in silence or else would burst out unexpectedly ...
... Schom- berg - as though those means were bound to have been ex- traordinary , unheard of , inconceivable . He slapped his forehead openly before his customers ; he would sit brood- ing in silence or else would burst out unexpectedly ...
Page 83
... Schom- berg made the reflection that there was nothing secretarial about him . Both he and his long , lank principal wore the usual white suit of the tropics , cork helmets , pipe - clayed white shoes - all correct . The hairy ...
... Schom- berg made the reflection that there was nothing secretarial about him . Both he and his long , lank principal wore the usual white suit of the tropics , cork helmets , pipe - clayed white shoes - all correct . The hairy ...
Page 87
... Schom- berg , clad in his sleeping suit , and moving restlessly about the room . He never glanced her way , for the reason that Mrs. Schomberg , in her night attire , looked the most unattrac- tive object in existence - miserable ...
... Schom- berg , clad in his sleeping suit , and moving restlessly about the room . He never glanced her way , for the reason that Mrs. Schomberg , in her night attire , looked the most unattrac- tive object in existence - miserable ...
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