The EarthquakeCharles Scribner's Sons, 1918 - 307 páginas |
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... 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 when the " peace leak ...
... 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 when the " peace leak ...
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... night we had spent in our own home for nearly a year , and this was the dawn of a new sort of existence . Heretofore we had taken no thought of the morrow or , for that matter , of to - day . When we opened the house in the autumn we ...
... night we had spent in our own home for nearly a year , and this was the dawn of a new sort of existence . Heretofore we had taken no thought of the morrow or , for that matter , of to - day . When we opened the house in the autumn we ...
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... laughed . " You've had them three times this week ! " " I am , " I answered . " I don't want anything better . And that fillet of sole you gave me last night- 99 " Flounder , at sixteen cents a pound ! " 64 THE EARTHQUAKE.
... laughed . " You've had them three times this week ! " " I am , " I answered . " I don't want anything better . And that fillet of sole you gave me last night- 99 " Flounder , at sixteen cents a pound ! " 64 THE EARTHQUAKE.
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... prayers since I was a boy , and I gave up reading the Scriptures years ago ; but the other night , just before we went up to bed , I took down our old dusty family Bible and opened it at the family record . There , in 78 THE EARTHQUAKE.
... prayers since I was a boy , and I gave up reading the Scriptures years ago ; but the other night , just before we went up to bed , I took down our old dusty family Bible and opened it at the family record . There , in 78 THE EARTHQUAKE.
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... night ? " She nodded , her face lighting up with eagerness . " I'm so glad you feel that way , John ! " she exclaimed . So I turned over the pages until I came to what I was looking for the thirty - first chapter of Proverbs -and ...
... night ? " She nodded , her face lighting up with eagerness . " I'm so glad you feel that way , John ! " she exclaimed . So I turned over the pages until I came to what I was looking for the thirty - first chapter of Proverbs -and ...
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