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Page 79
... shadows under the trees , where the extinguished paper lanterns were gently swinging their globes like withered fruit . He paced there to and fro for a long time , a calm , meditative ghost in his white drill suit , revolving in his ...
... shadows under the trees , where the extinguished paper lanterns were gently swinging their globes like withered fruit . He paced there to and fro for a long time , a calm , meditative ghost in his white drill suit , revolving in his ...
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... ever spoke to . Don't you care for me ? Don't you see- - ? " What he saw was that , white and spectral , she was put- ting out her arms to him out of the black shadows like an appealing ghost . He took her hands , and 82 VICTORY.
... ever spoke to . Don't you care for me ? Don't you see- - ? " What he saw was that , white and spectral , she was put- ting out her arms to him out of the black shadows like an appealing ghost . He took her hands , and 82 VICTORY.
Page 158
... shadows . A play of shad- ows the dominant race could walk through unaffected and disregarded in the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs . No. Native craft did not count , of course . It was an empty , solitary part of the ...
... shadows . A play of shad- ows the dominant race could walk through unaffected and disregarded in the pursuit of its incomprehensible aims and needs . No. Native craft did not count , of course . It was an empty , solitary part of the ...
Page 164
... shadows of the town . " You still believe in something , then ? " he said in a clear voice , which had been growing feeble of late . " You believe in flesh and blood , perhaps ? A full and equable contempt would soon do away with that ...
... shadows of the town . " You still believe in something , then ? " he said in a clear voice , which had been growing feeble of late . " You believe in flesh and blood , perhaps ? A full and equable contempt would soon do away with that ...
Page 165
... now Heyst felt acutely that he was alone on the bank of the stream . In his pride he determined not to enter it . A few slow tears rolled down his face . The rooms , filling with shadows , seemed haunted by a melancholy , VICTORY 165.
... now Heyst felt acutely that he was alone on the bank of the stream . In his pride he determined not to enter it . A few slow tears rolled down his face . The rooms , filling with shadows , seemed haunted by a melancholy , VICTORY 165.
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