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A Novel Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. " He's going to fire ! " yelled Castro's voice somewhere in the gallery . I saw a red dart in the shadow of the gate . The broken - nosed pirate had fired at me . The report , deadened in the vault ...
A Novel Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. " He's going to fire ! " yelled Castro's voice somewhere in the gallery . I saw a red dart in the shadow of the gate . The broken - nosed pirate had fired at me . The report , deadened in the vault ...
Page 196
... fire on the black slope of the mountain . In a moment it would flood the bay with light , and the schooner anchored off the beach before the Casa Riego was not eighty yards away . I dipped my oar without a splash . Castro pulled with ...
... fire on the black slope of the mountain . In a moment it would flood the bay with light , and the schooner anchored off the beach before the Casa Riego was not eighty yards away . I dipped my oar without a splash . Castro pulled with ...
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A Novel Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. The fire , however , warned us that there were some people on the point . We ceased rowing for a moment , and Castro explained to me that a fire was always lit when any of these thieves ' boats ...
A Novel Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. The fire , however , warned us that there were some people on the point . We ceased rowing for a moment , and Castro explained to me that a fire was always lit when any of these thieves ' boats ...
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... fire on the point , now much nearer us . Its edges seemed to melt away in the flight of the water - dust . It was a sea - fog coming in . Was it disastrous to us , or favorable ? It , at least , answered our immediate need for con ...
... fire on the point , now much nearer us . Its edges seemed to melt away in the flight of the water - dust . It was a sea - fog coming in . Was it disastrous to us , or favorable ? It , at least , answered our immediate need for con ...
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... fire . I kept on sculling , and gradually the sharp fusillade of dry twigs grew more distant , more muffled in the fog . At last it ceased altogether . Then a weakness came over me , and , hauling my oar in , I sat down by Seraphina's ...
... fire . I kept on sculling , and gradually the sharp fusillade of dry twigs grew more distant , more muffled in the fog . At last it ceased altogether . Then a weakness came over me , and , hauling my oar in , I sat down by Seraphina's ...
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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...