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Page 49
... round the neck , that lay forever in dark or darkened rooms , and talked querulously of " Your uncle , the earl , " whom I had never seen . I didn't get on with the men any better . They were either very dried up and querulous , too ...
... round the neck , that lay forever in dark or darkened rooms , and talked querulously of " Your uncle , the earl , " whom I had never seen . I didn't get on with the men any better . They were either very dried up and querulous , too ...
Page 56
... round in a round rosy face , and he clawed effusively at my arm . 66 Well done ! " he bubbled over . " You gave it them ; strike me , you did ! It did me good to see and hear . I wasn't going to poke my nose in , not I. But I admire you ...
... round in a round rosy face , and he clawed effusively at my arm . 66 Well done ! " he bubbled over . " You gave it them ; strike me , you did ! It did me good to see and hear . I wasn't going to poke my nose in , not I. But I admire you ...
Page 57
... round her . I'll see you through . " 66 They drank some sangaree and became noisy . I wasn't very happy ; there was much truth in what David Macdonald had said . Topnambo would certainly do his best to have me in jail — to make an ...
... round her . I'll see you through . " 66 They drank some sangaree and became noisy . I wasn't very happy ; there was much truth in what David Macdonald had said . Topnambo would certainly do his best to have me in jail — to make an ...
Page 58
... round their feet . They were a sorry - looking group , those pirates ; very wild - eyed , very ragged , dust - stained , weather - beaten , begrimed till they had the color of unpolished mahogany . Clinging still to each other as they ...
... round their feet . They were a sorry - looking group , those pirates ; very wild - eyed , very ragged , dust - stained , weather - beaten , begrimed till they had the color of unpolished mahogany . Clinging still to each other as they ...
Page 60
... round my shoulders and said , " How splendid to see you again , my Juan . " His eyes had affec- tion in them , there was no doubt about that , but I felt vaguely suspicious of him . I remembered how we had parted on board the Thames ...
... round my shoulders and said , " How splendid to see you again , my Juan . " His eyes had affec- tion in them , there was no doubt about that , but I felt vaguely suspicious of him . I remembered how we had parted on board the Thames ...
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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...