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Page 105
... thin and lined , with grey hair cut very short . He looks like a fisherman in some piece of real- istic sculpture of the Hellenistic school . His dark face is im- passive . He makes strange rhythmical sounds by beating a gourd with his ...
... thin and lined , with grey hair cut very short . He looks like a fisherman in some piece of real- istic sculpture of the Hellenistic school . His dark face is im- passive . He makes strange rhythmical sounds by beating a gourd with his ...
Page 106
... thin and straight like the smoke from a cot- tage chimney . You get out and walk . The lava crunches under your feet . Now and then you step over narrow fissures from which the sulphurous smoke rises , making you cough . You come to the ...
... thin and straight like the smoke from a cot- tage chimney . You get out and walk . The lava crunches under your feet . Now and then you step over narrow fissures from which the sulphurous smoke rises , making you cough . You come to the ...
Page 122
... thin man , with a small head and grey hair ; he wore spectacles and was dressed in dirty pyjamas . He had a half - caste wife and three very fair , weedy children . He was just recovering from a prolonged bout of drunkenness and hardly ...
... thin man , with a small head and grey hair ; he wore spectacles and was dressed in dirty pyjamas . He had a half - caste wife and three very fair , weedy children . He was just recovering from a prolonged bout of drunkenness and hardly ...
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