Apples by Night: StoriesJonathan Cape, 1932 - 314 pages |
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Page 283
... living man , gaunt as a wind - pressed candle and with hands like the forepaws of a mole , a foreigner in the minds of the villagers , but one with a true genius for shopkeeping and an aptitude for the cultivation of cactuses , which he ...
... living man , gaunt as a wind - pressed candle and with hands like the forepaws of a mole , a foreigner in the minds of the villagers , but one with a true genius for shopkeeping and an aptitude for the cultivation of cactuses , which he ...
Page 297
... living within sight of a soft and easy one , they chose the unknown for the known , and departed with their sisters . Their sense of values and distance changed overnight , and thenceforth they were lost to the sea and wind . Some ...
... living within sight of a soft and easy one , they chose the unknown for the known , and departed with their sisters . Their sense of values and distance changed overnight , and thenceforth they were lost to the sea and wind . Some ...
Page 312
... living . He lives at home now . Flo died - she weren't ever robust- influenza , y'know . I sold all their neat little traps . Twenty pounds , that's all I could get . Buying and selling's two different things . I passed the money on to ...
... living . He lives at home now . Flo died - she weren't ever robust- influenza , y'know . I sold all their neat little traps . Twenty pounds , that's all I could get . Buying and selling's two different things . I passed the money on to ...
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