Overland MonthlyA. Roman and Company, 1900 |
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Page 54
... knew himself to be greater than the civilization he threaded . I was possessed of the arro- gance of a Roman governor . At last I knew what it was to be born to the purple , and I took my seat in the hotel carriage as though it were my ...
... knew himself to be greater than the civilization he threaded . I was possessed of the arro- gance of a Roman governor . At last I knew what it was to be born to the purple , and I took my seat in the hotel carriage as though it were my ...
Page 55
... knew it ; I felt it . Like She , after her fire - bath in the womb of the world , I dwindled in my own sight . My feet were uncertain and heavy , and my soul became as a meal- sack , limp with emptiness and tied in the middle . People ...
... knew it ; I felt it . Like She , after her fire - bath in the womb of the world , I dwindled in my own sight . My feet were uncertain and heavy , and my soul became as a meal- sack , limp with emptiness and tied in the middle . People ...
Page 57
... knew when he was hittin ' the road same as we ! Pickin ' hens down near Santa Cruz to keep out o ' soak . Gettin ' so a ' bo may as well keep out o ' that valley . Get a job or get pinched , -that's what it is . But what you think o ...
... knew when he was hittin ' the road same as we ! Pickin ' hens down near Santa Cruz to keep out o ' soak . Gettin ' so a ' bo may as well keep out o ' that valley . Get a job or get pinched , -that's what it is . But what you think o ...
Page 58
... knew the country like a top , and s'pose there was a sociable sort o ' chap , like my gent friend , for instance , what could get some horses and a gun or two ; why I calculate those boys ' d make a big winnin ' . ' And then Hank sized ...
... knew the country like a top , and s'pose there was a sociable sort o ' chap , like my gent friend , for instance , what could get some horses and a gun or two ; why I calculate those boys ' d make a big winnin ' . ' And then Hank sized ...
Page 63
... knew exactly what happened at that mo- ment . All they could say was that from somewhere behind them , apparently from their own camp , came a volley which , in that narrow causeway and from forty yards ' range , acted on them as the ...
... knew exactly what happened at that mo- ment . All they could say was that from somewhere behind them , apparently from their own camp , came a volley which , in that narrow causeway and from forty yards ' range , acted on them as the ...
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