The Wild PalmsChatto & Windus, 1954 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina 108
... reached the village in four hours and found the letter from McCord . It con- tained a cheque for twenty - five dollars ; he had sold one of the puppets , and he had the promise of a job for Charlotte in a department store during the ...
... reached the village in four hours and found the letter from McCord . It con- tained a cheque for twenty - five dollars ; he had sold one of the puppets , and he had the promise of a job for Charlotte in a department store during the ...
Pàgina 144
... reached , thrust , recovered and reached again ; now , instead of space , the skiff became abruptly surrounded by a welter of fleeing debris - planks , small buildings , the bodies of drowned yet antic animals , entire trees leaping and ...
... reached , thrust , recovered and reached again ; now , instead of space , the skiff became abruptly surrounded by a welter of fleeing debris - planks , small buildings , the bodies of drowned yet antic animals , entire trees leaping and ...
Pàgina 163
... reached the flat crest with his now violently unmanageable burden when a stick under his foot gathered itself with thick convulsive speed . It was a snake , he thought as his feet fled beneath him and with the indubitable last of his ...
... reached the flat crest with his now violently unmanageable burden when a stick under his foot gathered itself with thick convulsive speed . It was a snake , he thought as his feet fled beneath him and with the indubitable last of his ...
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ain't already began believe beneath beside black wind blinked boat breath Buckner Cajan carrying cashier's cheque ceased Charlotte cigarette coat cold cottonfield cried damned dark deputy doctor dollars door drink eyes face feet flat glare going gunwales hand hard Harry head hear heard hell hold instant knew levee light Listen live looked McCord move never niggers night nurse officer oleander once Orleans outrage paddle palm pantomime pilot house pirogue pistol plump convict quietly realised remembered returned Rittenmeyer seemed sitting skiff sleep smell snow sorghum sound squatted stared steadily steamboat stood stopped stove talk tall convict tell thinking thought told took train trees truck trying turned vanished Vicksburg violently voice wait waked walk Warden watched whisky wife Wilbourne wild Wild Palms wind window woman