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A Novel Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. He looked at me , smiling a little mournfully . " Ah , Juan mio , " he said , " Spain is not like your England , unchanging and stable . The party who reign to - day do not love me , and they are ...
A Novel Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford. He looked at me , smiling a little mournfully . " Ah , Juan mio , " he said , " Spain is not like your England , unchanging and stable . The party who reign to - day do not love me , and they are ...
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... looked at me with an expression of affection that a little shamed my lightness of tone : " I love you much more than a kinsman , Juan , " he said . " I wish you could come with me . I try to arrange it . Later , per- haps , I may be ...
... looked at me with an expression of affection that a little shamed my lightness of tone : " I love you much more than a kinsman , Juan , " he said . " I wish you could come with me . I try to arrange it . Later , per- haps , I may be ...
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... looked at him with mouth and eyes agape . He spat again , and waved a claw towards the forward bulk- head . " They'll do it for yeh , " he said . " You're such a green goose , it makes me sick a bit . You hevn't reckoned out the chances ...
... looked at him with mouth and eyes agape . He spat again , and waved a claw towards the forward bulk- head . " They'll do it for yeh , " he said . " You're such a green goose , it makes me sick a bit . You hevn't reckoned out the chances ...
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... looked at the harbor we were entering , and thought of the home I had left so eagerly . After all , I was no more than a boy , and even younger in mind than in body . Queer - looking boats crawled between the shores like tiny water ...
... looked at the harbor we were entering , and thought of the home I had left so eagerly . After all , I was no more than a boy , and even younger in mind than in body . Queer - looking boats crawled between the shores like tiny water ...
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... looked round apprehensively . Carlos said , " The senor , my cousin , wishes for a Mr. Mac- donald . You know him , senor ? " Ramon made a dry gesture of perfect acquaintance . " I think I have seen him just now , " he said . " I will ...
... looked round apprehensively . Carlos said , " The senor , my cousin , wishes for a Mr. Mac- donald . You know him , senor ? " Ramon made a dry gesture of perfect acquaintance . " I think I have seen him just now , " he said . " I will ...
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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...