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Page 21
... sort of guarded attitude , as if afraid someone would reproach him with the death of Morrison . Naïve Heyst ! As if anybody would . . . . Nobody amongst us had any interest in men who went home . They were all right ; they did not count ...
... sort of guarded attitude , as if afraid someone would reproach him with the death of Morrison . Naïve Heyst ! As if anybody would . . . . Nobody amongst us had any interest in men who went home . They were all right ; they did not count ...
Page 22
... sort . Company promoters have an imagination of their own . There's no more romantic tem- perament on earth than the temperament of a company promoter . Engineers came out , coolies were imported , bungalows were put up on Samburan , a ...
... sort . Company promoters have an imagination of their own . There's no more romantic tem- perament on earth than the temperament of a company promoter . Engineers came out , coolies were imported , bungalows were put up on Samburan , a ...
Page 27
... sort of man one can speak familiarly to . There's something in him . One doesn't care to . 66 ' But what's the object ? Are you thinking of keeping possession of the mine ? ' I asked him . 66 " Something of the sort , ' he says . ' I am ...
... sort of man one can speak familiarly to . There's something in him . One doesn't care to . 66 ' But what's the object ? Are you thinking of keeping possession of the mine ? ' I asked him . 66 " Something of the sort , ' he says . ' I am ...
Page 30
... sort leads to trouble . Axel Heyst ought not to have cared for his letters or whatever it was that brought him out after something more than a year and a half in Samburan . But it was of no use . He had not the hermit's vocation ! That ...
... sort leads to trouble . Axel Heyst ought not to have cared for his letters or whatever it was that brought him out after something more than a year and a half in Samburan . But it was of no use . He had not the hermit's vocation ! That ...
Page 31
... sort that can furnish a house was startlingly novel . It was grotesquely fantastic . It was like a bird owning real property . " Belongings ? Do you mean chairs and tables ? " David- son asked with unconcealed astonishment . Heyst did ...
... sort that can furnish a house was startlingly novel . It was grotesquely fantastic . It was like a bird owning real property . " Belongings ? Do you mean chairs and tables ? " David- son asked with unconcealed astonishment . Heyst did ...
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