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Page 39
... fell backwards over a chest . He went back a step or two , flourished his arm , beat his chest , and turned furiously upon Carlos . " He will get us murdered , " he said . " Do you think we are safe here ? If these people here heard ...
... fell backwards over a chest . He went back a step or two , flourished his arm , beat his chest , and turned furiously upon Carlos . " He will get us murdered , " he said . " Do you think we are safe here ? If these people here heard ...
Page 57
... fell . But there , you'll get round her . I'll see you through . " 66 They drank some sangaree and became noisy . I wasn't very happy ; there was much truth in what David Macdonald had said . Topnambo would certainly do his best to have ...
... fell . But there , you'll get round her . I'll see you through . " 66 They drank some sangaree and became noisy . I wasn't very happy ; there was much truth in what David Macdonald had said . Topnambo would certainly do his best to have ...
Page 78
... fell apart , numb and perfectly useless ; I was half aware of pain in them , but it passed unnoticed among a cloud of other emotions . I didn't feel my finger - tips because I had the agitation , the flutter , the tantaliza- tion of ...
... fell apart , numb and perfectly useless ; I was half aware of pain in them , but it passed unnoticed among a cloud of other emotions . I didn't feel my finger - tips because I had the agitation , the flutter , the tantaliza- tion of ...
Page 79
... fell upon the image of a Madonna ; a rather large — perhaps a third life - size ; with a gilt crown , a pink serious face bent a little forward over a pink naked child that perched on her left arm and raised one hand . It stood on a ...
... fell upon the image of a Madonna ; a rather large — perhaps a third life - size ; with a gilt crown , a pink serious face bent a little forward over a pink naked child that perched on her left arm and raised one hand . It stood on a ...
Page 81
... fell upon my head , nearly knocking me over . Half stunned as I was , desperation lent me strength to scramble up her side hand over hand , while the boat floated away from under my feet . I was done up when I got on the poop . A yell ...
... fell upon my head , nearly knocking me over . Half stunned as I was , desperation lent me strength to scramble up her side hand over hand , while the boat floated away from under my feet . I was done up when I got on the poop . A yell ...
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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...