Each of us rushed for what we desired most--Bastin for one of the canisters of tea, I for my diarie...
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cone-shaped mountain in the centre, which was about a mile from the lake shore, was much larger tha...
dark hours. "Then perhaps we had better go to see." We started, and had not covered a hundred yard...
quite fifty yards across, which appeared to end in the mouth of the cave. On this causeway we noted...
end. Now all around us was a flat floor of rock which, as we perceived clearly when we pushed aside...
growth on his neck that a servant was supporting, said: "I am Marama, the chief of Orofena. We have...
solid rock, and on them had once stood a city, now pounded into dust and fragments. We struggled ov...
She thinks just as much of her varicose veins as we do of the loss of our wives." I wonder what Ba...
got because he will not eat enough. As for me, I mean to come if only to show you how continually a...
likenesses as remain of her, an extremely handsome woman. I was born much better looking. He was sm...
which he thrust into his pocket. Lifting his great fist he uttered some Danish oath and with a sing...
shall pay me five per cent interest, but no share of the profits." On these terms we dissolved the...
"Well," said Bickley, "he can't get to the liquor, except through this saloon, as it is locked up f...
the living of Fulcombe, feeling sure that he would provide me with endless amusement and act as a m...
looking shrunk, with his hair touzled and his beard apparently growing all ways, but still Bastin a...