The EarthquakeCharles Scribner's Sons, 1918 - 307 páginas |
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... months , under a doctor's orders , we had wandered in the Orient , and returned home to find ourselves in what was presently to prove a new world . I had been a fairly prosperous bond merchant , the junior partner in a well - connected ...
... months , under a doctor's orders , we had wandered in the Orient , and returned home to find ourselves in what was presently to prove a new world . I had been a fairly prosperous bond merchant , the junior partner in a well - connected ...
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... months in the Pacific as a long sleep , but I account the whole fifty - two previous years of my life as no less spent in dreaming - the dreaming of the materialistic , essentially selfish , if good - natured , American business man ...
... months in the Pacific as a long sleep , but I account the whole fifty - two previous years of my life as no less spent in dreaming - the dreaming of the materialistic , essentially selfish , if good - natured , American business man ...
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... months I slaved day and night , sleeping most of the time on trains , paying no attention to what I ate , my mind concentrated upon a single ob- ject - to float the Phoenicia Steel Company . The pa- pers were just ready to be signed ...
... months I slaved day and night , sleeping most of the time on trains , paying no attention to what I ate , my mind concentrated upon a single ob- ject - to float the Phoenicia Steel Company . The pa- pers were just ready to be signed ...
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... months ! " he had ordered ; and I had humbly prom- ised to obey . Indeed , it was no burden to carry out his injunction . I could not have done otherwise- there were no papers to read . In Manila , of course , we had been in touch for ...
... months ! " he had ordered ; and I had humbly prom- ised to obey . Indeed , it was no burden to carry out his injunction . I could not have done otherwise- there were no papers to read . In Manila , of course , we had been in touch for ...
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... months we led the existence commonly re- ferred to as idyllic , keeping no hours , sleeping fourteen out of the twenty - four when we chose , swimming in crystalline water inside the reefs , fishing for rainbow- hued pauu and hilu ...
... months we led the existence commonly re- ferred to as idyllic , keeping no hours , sleeping fourteen out of the twenty - four when we chose , swimming in crystalline water inside the reefs , fishing for rainbow- hued pauu and hilu ...
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