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Page 19
... sound of the others ' horses had long died away down the hill when he began to tell me what he ought to have done . " I knew it at once after I'd let you go . I ought to have kept you out of it . You came near being murdered . And to ...
... sound of the others ' horses had long died away down the hill when he began to tell me what he ought to have done . " I knew it at once after I'd let you go . I ought to have kept you out of it . You came near being murdered . And to ...
Page 33
... sound . He seemed to change his mind . " I am done with yeh , " he said , with a sort of sinister restraint . He rose to his feet , and , turning his back to me , began to shave , squinting into a broken looking - glass . I had not the ...
... sound . He seemed to change his mind . " I am done with yeh , " he said , with a sort of sinister restraint . He rose to his feet , and , turning his back to me , began to shave , squinting into a broken looking - glass . I had not the ...
Page 34
... sounds that came out of her were the piping of boatswains ' calls and the tramping of feet . Imagining her to be going home , I felt a great desire to be on board . Ultimately , as it turned out , I went home in that very ship , but ...
... sounds that came out of her were the piping of boatswains ' calls and the tramping of feet . Imagining her to be going home , I felt a great desire to be on board . Ultimately , as it turned out , I went home in that very ship , but ...
Page 42
... sound resembling the coughing of a defective pump , and a mere trickle of a voice asked : " Hwhat evidence have ye ... sounds coming from them were a bewildering noise . They were hauling baggage about aimlessly . A large soft bundle of ...
... sound resembling the coughing of a defective pump , and a mere trickle of a voice asked : " Hwhat evidence have ye ... sounds coming from them were a bewildering noise . They were hauling baggage about aimlessly . A large soft bundle of ...
Page 52
... sound of very distant surf , heard at night ; it seemed impossible that anyone could be as interested as she in the things that were happening over there . She had had a son ; one of Ralph's aunts was its godmother . She and Ralph had ...
... sound of very distant surf , heard at night ; it seemed impossible that anyone could be as interested as she in the things that were happening over there . She had had a son ; one of Ralph's aunts was its godmother . She and Ralph had ...
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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...