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Page 82
... gone adrift with a man . Have you seen anything of her ? " " No — confound you and your boat . " Of course those forward knew nothing of my being on board . The man who had thrown me the rope- -a passenger , a certain Major Cowper ...
... gone adrift with a man . Have you seen anything of her ? " " No — confound you and your boat . " Of course those forward knew nothing of my being on board . The man who had thrown me the rope- -a passenger , a certain Major Cowper ...
Page 84
... gone out of sight ahead , steering , apparently , the same course with ourselves . Her superior sailing had an enormous influence upon my for- tunes ; and I was more adrift in the world than ever before , more in the dark as to what ...
... gone out of sight ahead , steering , apparently , the same course with ourselves . Her superior sailing had an enormous influence upon my for- tunes ; and I was more adrift in the world than ever before , more in the dark as to what ...
Page 89
... gone forward into the crowd of scoundrels round the hatchway . It was only then that I realized that Major Cowper was in a state of delirious apprehension and fury ; I seemed to remember at last that for a long time he had been groaning ...
... gone forward into the crowd of scoundrels round the hatchway . It was only then that I realized that Major Cowper was in a state of delirious apprehension and fury ; I seemed to remember at last that for a long time he had been groaning ...
Page 99
... here and there like the pieces of a puzzle map . O'Brien had gone on to Havana in the ship from which I had escaped , to render an account of the pirates that had been hung at Kingston ; the Riegos had been landed PART SECOND 99.
... here and there like the pieces of a puzzle map . O'Brien had gone on to Havana in the ship from which I had escaped , to render an account of the pirates that had been hung at Kingston ; the Riegos had been landed PART SECOND 99.
Page 105
... gone on to take you when you arrived . You would never have come alive out of Havana . I was saving your life . Once there , you could never have escaped from that man . " I saw suddenly that this might be the truth . There had been ...
... gone on to take you when you arrived . You would never have come alive out of Havana . I was saving your life . Once there , you could never have escaped from that man . " I saw suddenly that this might be the truth . There had been ...
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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...