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Page 48
... darkness of night is friendly and familiar , but in a city , with its blaze of lights , it is unnatural , hostile and menacing . It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers , biding its time . A The morning crept out of a dark cloud like ...
... darkness of night is friendly and familiar , but in a city , with its blaze of lights , it is unnatural , hostile and menacing . It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers , biding its time . A The morning crept out of a dark cloud like ...
Page 105
... dark red hair . Fat Miller : a stout , very dark man with a round face and the manner of a buffoon oddly at variance with a kind of innate dignity . A The Hula - Hula . A small room with papered walls , deco- rated with Californian ...
... dark red hair . Fat Miller : a stout , very dark man with a round face and the manner of a buffoon oddly at variance with a kind of innate dignity . A The Hula - Hula . A small room with papered walls , deco- rated with Californian ...
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... dark and slimy , into which you sink knee - deep . When I got back to Kuching I wrote to the Resident with whom we had been staying and asked him if he could see his way to commuting the sentences of the two prisoners who had saved my ...
... dark and slimy , into which you sink knee - deep . When I got back to Kuching I wrote to the Resident with whom we had been staying and asked him if he could see his way to commuting the sentences of the two prisoners who had saved my ...
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