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Page 133
... crowd had as- sembled to see the ship come in , the women in bright colours , the men in white or khaki or blue . On the bright sunny quay the crowd , so brilliantly coloured , was a sight charmingly gay . There are stores and office ...
... crowd had as- sembled to see the ship come in , the women in bright colours , the men in white or khaki or blue . On the bright sunny quay the crowd , so brilliantly coloured , was a sight charmingly gay . There are stores and office ...
Page 172
... crowd , easy - going and patient ; I shouldn't imagine that they had the quick temper of the crowd in Paris which may so easily grow ugly and violent , and I can't believe that they would ever behave like the crowd of the French ...
... crowd , easy - going and patient ; I shouldn't imagine that they had the quick temper of the crowd in Paris which may so easily grow ugly and violent , and I can't believe that they would ever behave like the crowd of the French ...
Page 174
... crowd with the intentness of a bird of prey and yet seeing nothing , and that fierce bold mouth is curved into the shadow of a sardonic smile . There is something terrifying in the aloof- ness of the creature , contemptuous and yet ...
... crowd with the intentness of a bird of prey and yet seeing nothing , and that fierce bold mouth is curved into the shadow of a sardonic smile . There is something terrifying in the aloof- ness of the creature , contemptuous and yet ...
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