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Page 24
... knew it , and , without saying a word , busied himself in bailing the water out . But Castro , I was sur- prised to notice , knew more than I did about a boat , and , maimed as he was , made himself useful . " To me it looks as if we ...
... knew it , and , without saying a word , busied himself in bailing the water out . But Castro , I was sur- prised to notice , knew more than I did about a boat , and , maimed as he was , made himself useful . " To me it looks as if we ...
Page 25
... knew how . We would go as far as we could before the run was over . Carlos bailed unceasingly , and without a word of complaint , sticking to his self - appointed task as if in very truth he were care- less of life . A feeling came over ...
... knew how . We would go as far as we could before the run was over . Carlos bailed unceasingly , and without a word of complaint , sticking to his self - appointed task as if in very truth he were care- less of life . A feeling came over ...
Page 28
... golden , and a face like that of a certain keeper's daughter . Carlos , however , knew nothing about his cousin ; he cared little more , as far as I could tell . " What can she be to me since I have seen your . 28 ROMANCE.
... golden , and a face like that of a certain keeper's daughter . Carlos , however , knew nothing about his cousin ; he cared little more , as far as I could tell . " What can she be to me since I have seen your . 28 ROMANCE.
Page 33
... knew that going out of his berth was like escaping from the dark lair of a beast into a sunlit world . There is no denying that his words , and still more his manner , had awakened in me a sense of insecurity that had no precise object ...
... knew that going out of his berth was like escaping from the dark lair of a beast into a sunlit world . There is no denying that his words , and still more his manner , had awakened in me a sense of insecurity that had no precise object ...
Page 47
... knew — what , in the depths of his inscrutable Spanish brain , his dark eyes concealed . He bowed to me a little . " There will come a very great trouble , " he said . Jamaica was in those days — and remained for many years after— in ...
... knew — what , in the depths of his inscrutable Spanish brain , his dark eyes concealed . He bowed to me a little . " There will come a very great trouble , " he said . Jamaica was in those days — and remained for many years after— in ...
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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...