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Page 51
... head very much down on his breast , very much on one side , and his great hump portending over his little white face , and ruffling up his ragged black hair . Mrs. Macdonald clacked all the scandal of the Vale , and the Buckatoro ...
... head very much down on his breast , very much on one side , and his great hump portending over his little white face , and ruffling up his ragged black hair . Mrs. Macdonald clacked all the scandal of the Vale , and the Buckatoro ...
Page 53
... heads . A great lady was on the road ; her querulous voice was calling to someone within the open door that let down a ... head was uncovered . A third male face , very white , bobbed up and down beside his shining left shoulder . 53 VII.
... heads . A great lady was on the road ; her querulous voice was calling to someone within the open door that let down a ... head was uncovered . A third male face , very white , bobbed up and down beside his shining left shoulder . 53 VII.
Page 55
... head that I was going to assault him again . He bolted out of sight , and I was left facing the admiral . He stared at me contemptuously . I was streaming with perspiration and up- braiding him for assaulting a cripple . " " I know him ...
... head that I was going to assault him again . He bolted out of sight , and I was left facing the admiral . He stared at me contemptuously . I was streaming with perspiration and up- braiding him for assaulting a cripple . " " I know him ...
Page 56
... head on the table and little rings shining in his great red ears ; the other very spick and span — of what they called the new school then . His name was Williams — Captain Williams of the Lion , which he part owned ; a man of some note ...
... head on the table and little rings shining in his great red ears ; the other very spick and span — of what they called the new school then . His name was Williams — Captain Williams of the Lion , which he part owned ; a man of some note ...
Page 65
... head , slightly bald as if he had been tonsured , was rocking gently in one of the new chairs . Opposite him , with his aged face towards us , sat the old Don asleep in the high chair . His delicate white hands lay along the arms , one ...
... head , slightly bald as if he had been tonsured , was rocking gently in one of the new chairs . Opposite him , with his aged face towards us , sat the old Don asleep in the high chair . His delicate white hands lay along the arms , one ...
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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...