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Page 47
... morning , with his daughter on one arm , and the elderly female before alluded to on the other . The ' Unser Fritz ' was rolling heavily at the time , but with his usual awkward pertinacity he insisted upon attempting to walk toward the ...
... morning , with his daughter on one arm , and the elderly female before alluded to on the other . The ' Unser Fritz ' was rolling heavily at the time , but with his usual awkward pertinacity he insisted upon attempting to walk toward the ...
Page 71
... mornings of staring sunlight and nights of fog and silence . The warmer southwest trades had brought him clouds , rain , and the transient glories of quick grasses and odorous beach blossoms . But summer or winter , wet or dry season ...
... mornings of staring sunlight and nights of fog and silence . The warmer southwest trades had brought him clouds , rain , and the transient glories of quick grasses and odorous beach blossoms . But summer or winter , wet or dry season ...
Page 72
... morning when the sun tore away the misty curtain he awoke , dazed and bewildered , as upon a new world . The first sense of oppression over , he came to love at last this subtle spirit of oblivion ; and at night , when its cloudy wings ...
... morning when the sun tore away the misty curtain he awoke , dazed and bewildered , as upon a new world . The first sense of oppression over , he came to love at last this subtle spirit of oblivion ; and at night , when its cloudy wings ...
Page 73
... morning it should be again launched on its pur- poseless wanderings . And so , impelled by wind or tide , but always haunting his seclusion , he would meet it voyaging up the river at the flood , or see it tossing among the breakers on ...
... morning it should be again launched on its pur- poseless wanderings . And so , impelled by wind or tide , but always haunting his seclusion , he would meet it voyaging up the river at the flood , or see it tossing among the breakers on ...
Page 87
... is still remembered . It up- rooted giant trees along the river , and with them the tiny rootlets of the life he was idly fostering . The morning had been fitfully turbulent , the wind veer- THE MAN ON THE BEACH . 87.
... is still remembered . It up- rooted giant trees along the river , and with them the tiny rootlets of the life he was idly fostering . The morning had been fitfully turbulent , the wind veer- THE MAN ON THE BEACH . 87.
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