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Page 81
... mean by coming - to right across my bows like this ? " it yelled in a fury . 66 I stood still in the shadows on the poop . We were drawing slowly past the stern of the Spaniard , and O'Brien's voice answered in English : ' We are ...
... mean by coming - to right across my bows like this ? " it yelled in a fury . 66 I stood still in the shadows on the poop . We were drawing slowly past the stern of the Spaniard , and O'Brien's voice answered in English : ' We are ...
Page 90
... mean . The child's shrieks resounding louder and louder , I ran below . There were a couple of men in the cabin with the women . Mrs. Cowper was lying back upon a sofa , her face very white and drawn , her eyes wide open . Her useless ...
... mean . The child's shrieks resounding louder and louder , I ran below . There were a couple of men in the cabin with the women . Mrs. Cowper was lying back upon a sofa , her face very white and drawn , her eyes wide open . Her useless ...
Page 104
... means . " His air was so gay , so uncomplaining , that it was hard to believe it came from him . 66 ' You could not have acted worse if you had owed me a grudge , Carlos , " I said . " I want an explanation . But I don't want to kill ...
... means . " His air was so gay , so uncomplaining , that it was hard to believe it came from him . 66 ' You could not have acted worse if you had owed me a grudge , Carlos , " I said . " I want an explanation . But I don't want to kill ...
Page 106
... mean . All I know is , that you have used me ill - outrageously ill . You have saved my life now , you say . That may be true ; but why did you ever make me meet with that man O'Brien ? " 66 And even for that you should not hate me ...
... mean . All I know is , that you have used me ill - outrageously ill . You have saved my life now , you say . That may be true ; but why did you ever make me meet with that man O'Brien ? " 66 And even for that you should not hate me ...
Page 107
... means to go to Cuba . That man , seeing me intimate with two persons going to Rio Medio , had got it into his head that I was going there , too . And , very nat- urally , he did not want an Englishman for a witness of his doings . But ...
... means to go to Cuba . That man , seeing me intimate with two persons going to Rio Medio , had got it into his head that I was going there , too . And , very nat- urally , he did not want an Englishman for a witness of his doings . But ...
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