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Page 37
... eyes , " It is a good life , " he whispered seductively , " and I like you , John Kemp . You are young — very young yet . But I love you very much for your own sake , and for the sake of one I shall never see again . ” He fascinated me ...
... eyes , " It is a good life , " he whispered seductively , " and I like you , John Kemp . You are young — very young yet . But I love you very much for your own sake , and for the sake of one I shall never see again . ” He fascinated me ...
Page 39
... eyes ran furtively all round him , then he looked at me . He made an extraordinary swift motion with his right hand , and I saw that he was facing me with a long steel blade dis- played . Carlos continued to cough . The thing seemed odd ...
... eyes ran furtively all round him , then he looked at me . He made an extraordinary swift motion with his right hand , and I saw that he was facing me with a long steel blade dis- played . Carlos continued to cough . The thing seemed odd ...
Page 42
... eyes at me , meditatively , above the mother - of - pearl rims . He was so slow , so deliberate , that I own I began to wonder whether Carlos and Castro were still on board . It seemed to be at least half an hour before Macdonald ...
... eyes at me , meditatively , above the mother - of - pearl rims . He was so slow , so deliberate , that I own I began to wonder whether Carlos and Castro were still on board . It seemed to be at least half an hour before Macdonald ...
Page 56
... eyes sparkled blue and very round in a round rosy face , and he clawed effusively at my arm . 66 Well done ! " he bubbled over . " You gave it them ; strike me , you did ! It did me good to see and hear . I wasn't going to poke my nose ...
... eyes sparkled blue and very round in a round rosy face , and he clawed effusively at my arm . 66 Well done ! " he bubbled over . " You gave it them ; strike me , you did ! It did me good to see and hear . I wasn't going to poke my nose ...
Page 60
... eyes . And he coughed , and coughed . He put his arm affectionately round my shoulders and said , " How splendid to see you again , my Juan . " His eyes had affec- tion in them , there was no doubt about that , but I felt vaguely ...
... eyes . And he coughed , and coughed . He put his arm affectionately round my shoulders and said , " How splendid to see you again , my Juan . " His eyes had affec- tion in them , there was no doubt about that , but I felt vaguely ...
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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...