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... immovable , with no intention of entering , and called in a harsh , aged voice : " Senor Ramon ! Senor Ramon ! " and then twice : " Seraphina — Seraphina ! " turning his head back . Then for the first time I saw Seraphina , looking I.
... immovable , with no intention of entering , and called in a harsh , aged voice : " Senor Ramon ! Senor Ramon ! " and then twice : " Seraphina — Seraphina ! " turning his head back . Then for the first time I saw Seraphina , looking I.
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... voice of Rooksby hailed me suddenly from downstairs . " Hey , John — John Kemp ; come down , I say ! " I started away from the glass as if I had been taken in an act of folly . Rooksby was flicking his leg with his switch in the door ...
... voice of Rooksby hailed me suddenly from downstairs . " Hey , John — John Kemp ; come down , I say ! " I started away from the glass as if I had been taken in an act of folly . Rooksby was flicking his leg with his switch in the door ...
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... voice shouted back . " What be you a - doing with runners ? " The riot went on — forty or fifty voices . The runners were seized ; several hands caught at me . It was impossible to make myself heard ; a fist struck me on the cheek ...
... voice shouted back . " What be you a - doing with runners ? " The riot went on — forty or fifty voices . The runners were seized ; several hands caught at me . It was impossible to make myself heard ; a fist struck me on the cheek ...
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... voices ceased suddenly . " Now , lads , bring ' em along . " A voice I knew said their watchword , " Snuff and enough , " loudly , and then , " What's agate ? " " Someone else answered , " It's Rooksby , it's Sir Ralph . " The voice ...
... voices ceased suddenly . " Now , lads , bring ' em along . " A voice I knew said their watchword , " Snuff and enough , " loudly , and then , " What's agate ? " " Someone else answered , " It's Rooksby , it's Sir Ralph . " The voice ...
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... voice said in a whisper . " Mum , now ! It's all right . " It withdrew itself a little from my ear and called , " Now then , ready with them . When I say three . . . . " I heard groans and curses , and began to shout for help . My voice ...
... voice said in a whisper . " Mum , now ! It's all right . " It withdrew itself a little from my ear and called , " Now then , ready with them . When I say three . . . . " I heard groans and curses , and began to shout for help . My voice ...
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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...