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Page 53
... 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 54
... 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 some- where . 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 some- where . It came upon ...
Page 55
... steps , hoping to be able to make them recover their senses , a force of purely conventional emotion impelling me . It was no business of mine ; I didn't want to interfere , and I felt like a man hastening to separate half a dozen ...
... steps , hoping to be able to make them recover their senses , a force of purely conventional emotion impelling me . It was no business of mine ; I didn't want to interfere , and I felt like a man hastening to separate half a dozen ...
Page 56
... steps without even looking at me , and their carriage rolled away . Inside the inn I found a couple of merchant captains , one asleep with his head on the table and little rings shining in his great red ears ; the other very spick and ...
... steps without even looking at me , and their carriage rolled away . Inside the inn I found a couple of merchant captains , one asleep with his head on the table and little rings shining in his great red ears ; the other very spick and ...
Page 60
... step . As I cannoned off the drums , a hand caught at my arm , and some- one else began to speak to me . It was old Ramon , who was telling me that he had a special kind of Manchester goods at his store . He explained that they had ...
... step . As I cannoned off the drums , a hand caught at my arm , and some- one else began to speak to me . It was old Ramon , who was telling me that he had a special kind of Manchester goods at his store . He explained that they had ...
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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...