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Page 79
... turned my face away when I drew the knife with all my strength across her lovely throat . Without awaking she passed from sleep to death . " He stopped and stared frowning at the four cards that still lay , their backs upward , waiting ...
... turned my face away when I drew the knife with all my strength across her lovely throat . Without awaking she passed from sleep to death . " He stopped and stared frowning at the four cards that still lay , their backs upward , waiting ...
Page 144
... turned frightfully pale ( " I should never have thought an Indian could turn that colour , " he said ) and turned it over and over in his hand as though he could not understand what his own letter was doing there . Tears sprang to his ...
... turned frightfully pale ( " I should never have thought an Indian could turn that colour , " he said ) and turned it over and over in his hand as though he could not understand what his own letter was doing there . Tears sprang to his ...
Page 277
... turned her face away and Ashenden saw that the heavy tears were coursing down her cheeks . He was much moved . For he had a soft heart and it was dread- ful to think of poor Vladimir lying there with a bullet in his brain . These ...
... turned her face away and Ashenden saw that the heavy tears were coursing down her cheeks . He was much moved . For he had a soft heart and it was dread- ful to think of poor Vladimir lying there with a bullet in his brain . These ...
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