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Page 26
... began laughing at old Rangsley , who held forth in a thunderous voice , punctuated by hiccoughs : 66 They carried I aboord — a - cop — theer lugger and sinks I in the cold , co — old sea . " It mortified me excessively that I should be ...
... began laughing at old Rangsley , who held forth in a thunderous voice , punctuated by hiccoughs : 66 They carried I aboord — a - cop — theer lugger and sinks I in the cold , co — old sea . " It mortified me excessively that I should be ...
Page 31
... began to watch him , desultorily , and was rather startled by something more than a suspicion that he himself was watching me . On one occasion in particular I seemed to observe this . The second mate was lankily stalking the deck , his ...
... began to watch him , desultorily , and was rather startled by something more than a suspicion that he himself was watching me . On one occasion in particular I seemed to observe this . The second mate was lankily stalking the deck , his ...
Page 33
... began to shave , squinting into a broken looking - glass . I had not the slightest inkling of his meaning . I only knew that going out of his berth was like escaping from the dark lair of a beast into a sunlit world . There is no ...
... began to shave , squinting into a broken looking - glass . I had not the slightest inkling of his meaning . I only knew that going out of his berth was like escaping from the dark lair of a beast into a sunlit world . There is no ...
Page 36
... began to talk in an everyday voice about his plans . An uncle was going to meet him , and to house him for a day or two before he went to the barracks . 66 Mebbe we'll meet again , " he said . " I'll be here many years , I think . " He ...
... began to talk in an everyday voice about his plans . An uncle was going to meet him , and to house him for a day or two before he went to the barracks . 66 Mebbe we'll meet again , " he said . " I'll be here many years , I think . " He ...
Page 37
... began inviting me to go to his uncle's town . His uncle , he was sure , would welcome me . Jamaica and a planter's life were not fit for me . I had not then spoken very loudly , or had not made my meaning very clear . I felt a great ...
... began inviting me to go to his uncle's town . His uncle , he was sure , would welcome me . Jamaica and a planter's life were not fit for me . I had not then spoken very loudly , or had not made my meaning very clear . I felt a great ...
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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...