Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1Louis Conard, 1916 - 276 pages |
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Page 74
... girl . I saw them rushing around making inquiries . I don't know what they would have done to the girl , but they seemed quite ready to fall upon your Heyst , Davidson , and kill him on the quay . ” He had never , he said , seen ...
... girl . I saw them rushing around making inquiries . I don't know what they would have done to the girl , but they seemed quite ready to fall upon your Heyst , Davidson , and kill him on the quay . ” He had never , he said , seen ...
Page 75
... girl , and telling a story of which one could make neither head nor tail . Their reception , by the roadstead was generally unsympathetic , even to the point of the mate of an American ship bundling them out over the rail with unseemly ...
... girl , and telling a story of which one could make neither head nor tail . Their reception , by the roadstead was generally unsympathetic , even to the point of the mate of an American ship bundling them out over the rail with unseemly ...
Page 80
... girl , a performer in a ladies ' orchestra , whom he had carried straight off the con- cert platform into the wilderness . He was not ashamed or defiant or abashed about it . He might have been a shade confidential when addressing ...
... girl , a performer in a ladies ' orchestra , whom he had carried straight off the con- cert platform into the wilderness . He was not ashamed or defiant or abashed about it . He might have been a shade confidential when addressing ...
Page 81
... girl there . This bizarre discourse was probably the effect of the girl . Davidson shook off the absurd feeling , and asked , wishing to make clear his friendliness , and not knowing what else to say : " You haven't run short of stores ...
... girl there . This bizarre discourse was probably the effect of the girl . Davidson shook off the absurd feeling , and asked , wishing to make clear his friendliness , and not knowing what else to say : " You haven't run short of stores ...
Page 82
... girl , wore off as the minutes went by . " There's a lot of unexpected- ness about women , " he generalised with a didactic aim which seemed to miss its mark ; for the next thing Heyst said was : " This is Mrs. Schomberg's shawl . " He ...
... girl , wore off as the minutes went by . " There's a lot of unexpected- ness about women , " he generalised with a didactic aim which seemed to miss its mark ; for the next thing Heyst said was : " This is Mrs. Schomberg's shawl . " He ...
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