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Page 122
... impression of being at the same time sturdy and frail . He was very deaf and you had to shout to make him hear . He spoke in a low soft voice with an Australian accent . His wife was a large woman , strong and good - humoured , with ...
... impression of being at the same time sturdy and frail . He was very deaf and you had to shout to make him hear . He spoke in a low soft voice with an Australian accent . His wife was a large woman , strong and good - humoured , with ...
Page 227
... impression that he was a cavalryman , but in point of fact he was in the K.O.Y.L.I. His hair is dark and thin and plastered down on his skull , but he has an enor- mous flowing and luxuriant moustache . He prides himself on playing ...
... impression that he was a cavalryman , but in point of fact he was in the K.O.Y.L.I. His hair is dark and thin and plastered down on his skull , but he has an enor- mous flowing and luxuriant moustache . He prides himself on playing ...
Page 238
... impression of low cunning . His stories of the F.M.S. are mostly about the people who in one way and another have done him down , and he gives you the impression that he is the only honest man in a world of rogues . The one story he ...
... impression of low cunning . His stories of the F.M.S. are mostly about the people who in one way and another have done him down , and he gives you the impression that he is the only honest man in a world of rogues . The one story he ...
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