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Page 19
... turned into the big inn at the junction of the London road to write a letter to his agent bidding him house me and employ me as an improver . For fear of compromising him we waited in the shadow of trees a furlong or two down the road ...
... turned into the big inn at the junction of the London road to write a letter to his agent bidding him house me and employ me as an improver . For fear of compromising him we waited in the shadow of trees a furlong or two down the road ...
Page 24
... turned to a shadow , spotted here and there with little lights . Behind us a cock crowed . The shingle crashed at intervals beneath the feet of a large body of men . I remembered the smugglers ; but it was as if I had remembered them ...
... turned to a shadow , spotted here and there with little lights . Behind us a cock crowed . The shingle crashed at intervals beneath the feet of a large body of men . I remembered the smugglers ; but it was as if I had remembered them ...
Page 32
... turned and regarded him with a haughty stare . He whistled and walked away . Carlos muttered something that I did not catch about " spies of that pestilent Irishman . " Then : " " " I will not selfishly take you into any more dangers ...
... turned and regarded him with a haughty stare . He whistled and walked away . Carlos muttered something that I did not catch about " spies of that pestilent Irishman . " Then : " " " I will not selfishly take you into any more dangers ...
Page 34
... turned out , I went home in that very ship , but then it was too late . I was another man by that time , with much queer knowledge and other desires . Whilst I was looking and longing I heard Carlos ' voice behind me asking one of our ...
... turned out , I went home in that very ship , but then it was too late . I was another man by that time , with much queer knowledge and other desires . Whilst I was looking and longing I heard Carlos ' voice behind me asking one of our ...
Page 35
... turned his searching , quietly analytic gaze upon me . " " " But is the caballero going over , too ? he asked . 67 Carlos said , No. I think not , now . " And at that moment the second mate , shouldering his way through a white ...
... turned his searching , quietly analytic gaze upon me . " " " But is the caballero going over , too ? he asked . 67 Carlos said , No. I think not , now . " And at that moment the second mate , shouldering his way through a white ...
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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...