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Page 64
... face , and ruffling up his ragged black hair . Mrs. Macdonald clacked all the scandal of the Vale , and the Buckatoro Journal got the benefit of it all , with adorn- ments . For the last month or so the Journal had been more than ...
... face , and ruffling up his ragged black hair . Mrs. Macdonald clacked all the scandal of the Vale , and the Buckatoro Journal got the benefit of it all , with adorn- ments . For the last month or so the Journal had been more than ...
Page 67
... face turned up to the moon . A sort of buzz of voices came from above ; then a man in European clothes was silhouetted against the light in the doorway . He held a full glass very carefully and started to de- scend . Suddenly he stopped ...
... face turned up to the moon . A sort of buzz of voices came from above ; then a man in European clothes was silhouetted against the light in the doorway . He held a full glass very carefully and started to de- scend . Suddenly he stopped ...
Page 68
... face , very white , bobbed up and down beside his shining left shoulder . He kept on saying : • " What ? what ? what ? Hey , what ? That man ? " He appeared to be halfway between supreme content and violent anger . At last he delivered ...
... face , very white , bobbed up and down beside his shining left shoulder . He kept on saying : • " What ? what ? what ? Hey , what ? That man ? " He appeared to be halfway between supreme content and violent anger . At last he delivered ...
Page 74
... face grew convulsed with agony , his eyeballs stared out very white and vivid , as he struggled with the two men . He began to curse us epileptically for compassing his damnation . A hoarse patter of Spanish imprecations came from the ...
... face grew convulsed with agony , his eyeballs stared out very white and vivid , as he struggled with the two men . He began to curse us epileptically for compassing his damnation . A hoarse patter of Spanish imprecations came from the ...
Page 76
... face had lost its moist bloom , its hardly distinguishable subcutaneous flush . It had grown very , very pale . Dark blue circles took away from the blackness and sparkle of his eyes . And he coughed , and coughed . He put his arm ...
... face had lost its moist bloom , its hardly distinguishable subcutaneous flush . It had grown very , very pale . Dark blue circles took away from the blackness and sparkle of his eyes . And he coughed , and coughed . He put his arm ...
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