Ray's RecruitJ.B. Lippincott, 1898 - 243 páginas |
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... . He had need to be alone , -to face his changed fortunes fair and square . Twenty - five years old , and up to the mid- week mail from America he had never known a care since boyish days , unless it was some 12 RAY'S RECRUIT.
... . He had need to be alone , -to face his changed fortunes fair and square . Twenty - five years old , and up to the mid- week mail from America he had never known a care since boyish days , unless it was some 12 RAY'S RECRUIT.
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... week , - -a thing that never happened to me before or since . If you like it , Ray , or if it agrees with you , Blake , why , go ahead . So long as you don't get full and neglect your busi- ness , it's none of mine . " Time was in the ...
... week , - -a thing that never happened to me before or since . If you like it , Ray , or if it agrees with you , Blake , why , go ahead . So long as you don't get full and neglect your busi- ness , it's none of mine . " Time was in the ...
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... the other car hasn't lost much time . He's snoring like he hadn't slept for six weeks . Where'd he say he lived ? " " Pawnee . " " Know him - there ? " " No , nor anybody else . " " Never been out here before ? ' ' cross 70 RAY'S RECRUIT.
... the other car hasn't lost much time . He's snoring like he hadn't slept for six weeks . Where'd he say he lived ? " " Pawnee . " " Know him - there ? " " No , nor anybody else . " " Never been out here before ? ' ' cross 70 RAY'S RECRUIT.
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... week . He was used to walking , he said , and offered to carry the conductor's pencilled despatch . It should have been sent by a brakeman of the freight , but both were lamed and badly bruised . Jarvis looked more than uncertain at ...
... week . He was used to walking , he said , and offered to carry the conductor's pencilled despatch . It should have been sent by a brakeman of the freight , but both were lamed and badly bruised . Jarvis looked more than uncertain at ...
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... weeks later , after she had be- gun to feel reasonably at home at Ransom . It was the queerest phase of life that ever she had encountered . City - bred , convent - educated , she found frontier ways at an army post as full of novelty ...
... weeks later , after she had be- gun to feel reasonably at home at Ransom . It was the queerest phase of life that ever she had encountered . City - bred , convent - educated , she found frontier ways at an army post as full of novelty ...
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Página 111 - I , do solemnly swear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America and...
Página 109 - It wasn't so much what he said as how he said it: As if he hadn't just given up hope, but that he knew Sandy was dead.
Página 101 - ... other trees that have weathered the storms of a hundred winters. Besides these, come many acres of wild No-man's land, where things have had their own way from time immemorial, with rich meadows and clear streams, hill, valley, and plain. I have been out and about in all weathers, winter and summer, at all hours of the day and not a few of the night, and, being but a poor vicar in the wilderness, have had to make my way on foot. This has given me many chances of observing for myself the varied...
Página 20 - Even Mr. Smythe, with half a million, could not buy. I am going to a higher bidder, — the highest I could find.
Página 103 - Several of the young officers danced divinely, all of them rode well, and none of them thought anything of coming banging at the hall door any hour of the day to ask Mrs.
Página 103 - Parades were fine, guard-mounting "lovely." The little dinners and suppers and dances were just as jolly, friendly, and delightful as could possibly be.
Página 111 - York, by occupation a clerk, do hereby acknowledge to have voluntarily enlisted this...