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... seemed to freeze my soul with horror . For was not I a guilty creature , and were not the devils indeed too really around me ? -and what was to prevent their possessing me ? Who in all the universe was on my side ? Could I look up with ...
... seemed to freeze my soul with horror . For was not I a guilty creature , and were not the devils indeed too really around me ? -and what was to prevent their possessing me ? Who in all the universe was on my side ? Could I look up with ...
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... seemed that not only the image of the man was there , but the image of the writhing millions of victims of simi- lar wrecks . One could see , with the mind's eye , thousands of fathers and of mothers fighting to free themselves from the ...
... seemed that not only the image of the man was there , but the image of the writhing millions of victims of simi- lar wrecks . One could see , with the mind's eye , thousands of fathers and of mothers fighting to free themselves from the ...
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... seemed to take rather of a liking to him . His absurd name was Claude , which rather stuck in the gullet of so elegant a young gentleman - although when you came to think of it , there had once been at New- port when Thomas Robinson was ...
... seemed to take rather of a liking to him . His absurd name was Claude , which rather stuck in the gullet of so elegant a young gentleman - although when you came to think of it , there had once been at New- port when Thomas Robinson was ...
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... seemed to charge his memory or to trouble his thoughts with the sense of any of the services that had been done him . While he was abroad , at Paris , Cologne , or Brussels , he never seemed to lay anything to heart . He pursued all his ...
... seemed to charge his memory or to trouble his thoughts with the sense of any of the services that had been done him . While he was abroad , at Paris , Cologne , or Brussels , he never seemed to lay anything to heart . He pursued all his ...
Page 43
... seemed blighted and the meadows parched , the streams were dried up , and everything seemed troubled and sorrowful . But yet they all thought that , somehow or other , the grove had not near so forbidding a look as it used to have ...
... seemed blighted and the meadows parched , the streams were dried up , and everything seemed troubled and sorrowful . But yet they all thought that , somehow or other , the grove had not near so forbidding a look as it used to have ...
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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...