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Page 45
... boats ' crews that the admiral has sent to burn the town . They will be back very soon now . " He looked at me , inscrutably and attentively , through his gold spectacles . It was on the arcade before his store in Spanish Town . Long ...
... boats ' crews that the admiral has sent to burn the town . They will be back very soon now . " He looked at me , inscrutably and attentively , through his gold spectacles . It was on the arcade before his store in Spanish Town . Long ...
Page 51
... boat- attack . All Jamaica had been talking of it , speculating about it , congratulating itself on it . British valor was going to tell ; four boats ' crews would do the trick . And now the boats had been beaten off , the crews ...
... boat- attack . All Jamaica had been talking of it , speculating about it , congratulating itself on it . British valor was going to tell ; four boats ' crews would do the trick . And now the boats had been beaten off , the crews ...
Page 54
... boat - attack , he had been lying hidden some- where . It came upon me in a flash that he was making his way from one hiding place to another . In making his escape from Spanish Town , either to Kingston or the Vale , he had run against ...
... boat - attack , he had been lying hidden some- where . It came upon me in a flash that he was making his way from one hiding place to another . In making his escape from Spanish Town , either to Kingston or the Vale , he had run against ...
Page 64
... boats . ( 6 Come , you had better see this Irish hidalgo who wants to do us so much honor , " he gave an inscrutable glance at me , " but do not talk loudly till my uncle wakes . " He threw the door open . I followed him into the room ...
... boats . ( 6 Come , you had better see this Irish hidalgo who wants to do us so much honor , " he gave an inscrutable glance at me , " but do not talk loudly till my uncle wakes . " He threw the door open . I followed him into the room ...
Page 66
... boats in the bay . To him , even though he was now a judge in Cuba , it was an episode of heroism of youth — of romance , in fact . So that , probably , he did not resent my mention of it . I certainly wanted to resent something that ...
... boats in the bay . To him , even though he was now a judge in Cuba , it was an episode of heroism of youth — of romance , in fact . So that , probably , he did not resent my mention of it . I certainly wanted to resent something that ...
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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...