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Page 64
... steps of the arcade . The rider was talking to both of them with exaggerated gestures of his arms . He had ridden off , spurring , and the editor , a little , gleaming - eyed hunchback , had remained in the sunshine , talking excitedly ...
... steps of the arcade . The rider was talking to both of them with exaggerated gestures of his arms . He had ridden off , spurring , and the editor , a little , gleaming - eyed hunchback , had remained in the sunshine , talking excitedly ...
Page 65
... steps into the obscurity of his own door . Ramon turned his spectacles softly upon me . " There you have it , " he said . " The folly ; the folly ! To send only little boats to attack such a nest of villains . It is inconceivable ...
... steps into the obscurity of his own door . Ramon turned his spectacles softly upon me . " There you have it , " he said . " The folly ; the folly ! To send only little boats to attack such a nest of villains . It is inconceivable ...
Page 67
... steps . A nondescript object , with apparently two horns and a wheel , rested inert at the foot of the sign - post ; two negroes were wiping their foreheads beside it . That resolved itself into a man slumbering in a wheelbarrow , his ...
... steps . A nondescript object , with apparently two horns and a wheel , rested inert at the foot of the sign - post ; two negroes were wiping their foreheads beside it . That resolved itself into a man slumbering in a wheelbarrow , his ...
Page 68
... steps , a black figure , indistinguishable at first on account of deformities . It was David Macdonald . Since his last , really terrible comments on the failure of the boat - attack , he had been lying hidden somewhere . It came upon ...
... steps , a black figure , indistinguishable at first on account of deformities . It was David Macdonald . Since his last , really terrible comments on the failure of the boat - attack , he had been lying hidden somewhere . It came upon ...
Page 69
... steps ; now he was in for it he showed plenty of pluck . No doubt he recognized that , if the admiral made a fool of ... steps . Shrieks came from the interior of the carriage , and from the waiting negresses . I saw three men were ...
... steps ; now he was in for it he showed plenty of pluck . No doubt he recognized that , if the admiral made a fool of ... steps . Shrieks came from the interior of the carriage , and from the waiting negresses . I saw three men were ...
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