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... young man was lying on the veranda smoking cigarettes and a young woman was seated idly . The master of the house , a flat - nosed , smiling dark native came and talked to us . He asked us to go in , and the first thing I saw was the ...
... young man was lying on the veranda smoking cigarettes and a young woman was seated idly . The master of the house , a flat - nosed , smiling dark native came and talked to us . He asked us to go in , and the first thing I saw was the ...
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 337
... young man , " what was he doing but appealing to the young man's spirit of adventure ? I have talked to a good many of these lads who are going to the war . Most of them go because they are obliged to , many from a sense of duty , but I ...
... young man , " what was he doing but appealing to the young man's spirit of adventure ? I have talked to a good many of these lads who are going to the war . Most of them go because they are obliged to , many from a sense of duty , but I ...
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