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Page 190
... young man . He turns the hog towards him and stabs it in the jugu- lar vein ; there is a gush of blood and the hog passes on . An- other takes its place . Hog follows hog with a mechanical regularity which reminds you of the moving ...
... young man . He turns the hog towards him and stabs it in the jugu- lar vein ; there is a gush of blood and the hog passes on . An- other takes its place . Hog follows hog with a mechanical regularity which reminds you of the moving ...
Page 255
... young are earnest . He was a young man with a pugnacious but rather attractive face and a shock of thick brown hair , brushed straight back from his forehead , to which he sought by the lavish application of oil to give the fashionable ...
... young are earnest . He was a young man with a pugnacious but rather attractive face and a shock of thick brown hair , brushed straight back from his forehead , to which he sought by the lavish application of oil to give the fashionable ...
Page 257
... young . I realised that she looked upon me with the respect due to age . It is not a very pleasant thing to recognise that for the young you are no longer an equal . You belong to a different generation . For them your race is run ...
... young . I realised that she looked upon me with the respect due to age . It is not a very pleasant thing to recognise that for the young you are no longer an equal . You belong to a different generation . For them your race is run ...
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