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Page 87
... nose , the tight - closed , austere lips of the fanatic . In his close - set eyes and compressed jaw , in the tension with which he restlessly held himself there was a cold de- termination and a sullen obstinacy . # With his black ...
... nose , the tight - closed , austere lips of the fanatic . In his close - set eyes and compressed jaw , in the tension with which he restlessly held himself there was a cold de- termination and a sullen obstinacy . # With his black ...
Page 107
... nose and dark eyes . His voice is loud and strident . He is aggressive and a bully and he always wants to have his own way . He is irascible , sensitive and perpetually on the look - out for slights . He keeps vaguely threatening to ...
... nose and dark eyes . His voice is loud and strident . He is aggressive and a bully and he always wants to have his own way . He is irascible , sensitive and perpetually on the look - out for slights . He keeps vaguely threatening to ...
Page 116
... nose . He wears white ducks and a black tie . He is an excitable little man , more often than not tipsy , and he loves to tell you the scandal of the island . He is fifty , but talks grandly of going to the front next February , and you ...
... nose . He wears white ducks and a black tie . He is an excitable little man , more often than not tipsy , and he loves to tell you the scandal of the island . He is fifty , but talks grandly of going to the front next February , and you ...
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