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Page 52
... have caused me extraordinary emotions , as many as if I had seen an ele- phant in a traveling show . As for going back to my old life , it didn't seem to be possible . O CHAPTER II NE night I was riding alone towards 52 ROMANCE.
... have caused me extraordinary emotions , as many as if I had seen an ele- phant in a traveling show . As for going back to my old life , it didn't seem to be possible . O CHAPTER II NE night I was riding alone towards 52 ROMANCE.
Page 55
... seen him kneeling on the ground with his head pinned down by the hunchback . I said loftily : " What did you set him on a little beggar like that for ? You were three to one . What did you expect ? " " The Admiral swore . Oldham began ...
... seen him kneeling on the ground with his head pinned down by the hunchback . I said loftily : " What did you set him on a little beggar like that for ? You were three to one . What did you expect ? " " The Admiral swore . Oldham began ...
Page 56
... seen ! " and he drank my health in a glass of punch . • • David Macdonald joined us , looming through wreaths of to- bacco smoke . He was always very nice in his dress , and had washed himself into a state of enviable coolness . " They ...
... seen ! " and he drank my health in a glass of punch . • • David Macdonald joined us , looming through wreaths of to- bacco smoke . He was always very nice in his dress , and had washed himself into a state of enviable coolness . " They ...
Page 57
... seen a hanging , and a man who hadn't was rare in those days . I wanted to keep out of the way , but it was impossible to get a boatman to row me off to the Lion . They were all dying to see the show , and , half curious , half ...
... seen a hanging , and a man who hadn't was rare in those days . I wanted to keep out of the way , but it was impossible to get a boatman to row me off to the Lion . They were all dying to see the show , and , half curious , half ...
Page 59
... seen the nigger's tongue sticking out . Others thought that there wasn't very much to be exultant over . We had not really captured the pirates ; they had been handed over to the admiral by the Havana authorities — as an international ...
... seen the nigger's tongue sticking out . Others thought that there wasn't very much to be exultant over . We had not really captured the pirates ; they had been handed over to the admiral by the Havana authorities — as an international ...
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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...