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... began to shout for help . My voice came back in an echo , despairingly . Suddenly I was dragged backward , and the bandage pulled from my eyes . 66 " " Come along , " Rangsley said , leading me gently enough to the road , which was five ...
... began to shout for help . My voice came back in an echo , despairingly . Suddenly I was dragged backward , and the bandage pulled from my eyes . 66 " " Come along , " Rangsley said , leading me gently enough to the road , which was five ...
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... 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 — not for ten . " " It doesn't matter , " I said cheerfully . " Ah , but , " Rooksby said , " you'll have ...
... 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 — not for ten . " " It doesn't matter , " I said cheerfully . " Ah , but , " Rooksby said , " you'll have ...
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... began upbraiding himself again . The others rode onwards . " Oh , it's all right , " I said . " It's fine — it's fine . I'd have given fifty guineas for this chance this morning — and , Ralph , I say , you may tell Veronica why I'm ...
... began upbraiding himself again . The others rode onwards . " Oh , it's all right , " I said . " It's fine — it's fine . I'd have given fifty guineas for this chance this morning — and , Ralph , I say , you may tell Veronica why I'm ...
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... began muffledly to chime the quarters behind us ; then the hour struck— . ten strokes . Rangsley set one of his lanthorns on the window and twisted the top . He sent beams of yellow light shooting out to seawards . His hands quivered ...
... began muffledly to chime the quarters behind us ; then the hour struck— . ten strokes . Rangsley set one of his lanthorns on the window and twisted the top . He sent beams of yellow light shooting out to seawards . His hands quivered ...
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... began to sing ; his voice was hoarse and drunken . " When Harol ' war inva — a — ded , An ' fallin ' , lost his crownd , An ' Normun William wa — a — ded . " The water murmured without a pause , as if it had a million tiny facts to ...
... began to sing ; his voice was hoarse and drunken . " When Harol ' war inva — a — ded , An ' fallin ' , lost his crownd , An ' Normun William wa — a — ded . " The water murmured without a pause , as if it had a million tiny facts to ...
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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...