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Page 69
... gone ; he was a devil among tailors for a time , but he's taken to crying now . It was when your blundering old admiral's boats had to be beaten off that his zeal cooled . He thinks the British Government will rise in its strength ...
... gone ; he was a devil among tailors for a time , but he's taken to crying now . It was when your blundering old admiral's boats had to be beaten off that his zeal cooled . He thinks the British Government will rise in its strength ...
Page 71
... gone away at once . She said angrily : " He is odious to me , the Senor Juez . Too long my father has suffered his insolence . " She was very small , but she had an extraor- dinary dignity of command . " I could see , senor , that he ...
... gone away at once . She said angrily : " He is odious to me , the Senor Juez . Too long my father has suffered his insolence . " She was very small , but she had an extraor- dinary dignity of command . " I could see , senor , that he ...
Page 73
... gone before , and I did not , in a purely conventional sense , know how long I ought to stop . The sky through the barred windows had grown pallid . The old Don said suddenly , " You must visit my poor town of Rio Medio , " but he gave ...
... gone before , and I did not , in a purely conventional sense , know how long I ought to stop . The sky through the barred windows had grown pallid . The old Don said suddenly , " You must visit my poor town of Rio Medio , " but he gave ...
Page 74
... gone back to her seat . Don Balthasar shrugged his shoulders to his ears , and moved his hands from his knees . " Without doubt , he knows best , " he said ; " but he should ask me . " It grew darker still ; the old Don seemed to have ...
... gone back to her seat . Don Balthasar shrugged his shoulders to his ears , and moved his hands from his knees . " Without doubt , he knows best , " he said ; " but he should ask me . " It grew darker still ; the old Don seemed to have ...
Page 76
... gone moldy and offended my nostrils ; I had a sense of ignominy , and I was extremely angry ; I could see that the old Don was in his dotage — but Carlos I was bitter against . I was not really afraid ; I could not suppose that the ...
... gone moldy and offended my nostrils ; I had a sense of ignominy , and I was extremely angry ; I could see that the old Don was in his dotage — but Carlos I was bitter against . I was not really afraid ; I could not suppose that the ...
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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...