The Wild PalmsChatto & Windus, 1954 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina 45
... merely tilted and produced from among them , with the magical abruptness with which the little metal torpedo containing change from a sale emerges from its tube in a store , a leather wallet . It contained the stubs of five pari- mutuel ...
... merely tilted and produced from among them , with the magical abruptness with which the little metal torpedo containing change from a sale emerges from its tube in a store , a leather wallet . It contained the stubs of five pari- mutuel ...
Pàgina 135
... merely described a big circle since getting back into the skiff , and the object ( a clump of cypress - trees choked by floating logs and debris ) which the skiff was now about to strike was the same one it had careened into before when ...
... merely described a big circle since getting back into the skiff , and the object ( a clump of cypress - trees choked by floating logs and debris ) which the skiff was now about to strike was the same one it had careened into before when ...
Pàgina 244
... merely knowing it - better than he had ever done , who had not even known until now how good work , making money , could be ) yet it was not his life , he still and would ever be no more than the water bug upon the surface of the pond ...
... merely knowing it - better than he had ever done , who had not even known until now how good work , making money , could be ) yet it was not his life , he still and would ever be no more than the water bug upon the surface of the pond ...
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66 All right ain't already began believe beneath black wind blinked boat breath Buckner Cajan cashier's cheque ceased Charlotte cigarette coat cold 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 preter 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