Recollections of Four Years in VenezuelaH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 303 páginas |
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... Wilhelm made up a fire , and a little while after we were all satisfying our hunger with the greatest cheerfulness , and with the ease of old acquaintance . Without shoes or Our guide was a study . leggings , his trousers reaching only ...
... Wilhelm made up a fire , and a little while after we were all satisfying our hunger with the greatest cheerfulness , and with the ease of old acquaintance . Without shoes or Our guide was a study . leggings , his trousers reaching only ...
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... Wilhelm with whom he had formed acquaintance in the Jew's house , and who in persuading him to accompany him to Angostura was serving his own ends , that he undertook the journey . M. Wilhelm was brusque in his manner , and every act of ...
... Wilhelm with whom he had formed acquaintance in the Jew's house , and who in persuading him to accompany him to Angostura was serving his own ends , that he undertook the journey . M. Wilhelm was brusque in his manner , and every act of ...
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... Wilhelm , with a deep sigh , " a good man's absence is always regretted . ” 66 True , Señor ; a remarkable man's escape is remarkably regretted . Let well or ill alone , let Maturin alone ; you have had enough of it . " " Business was ...
... Wilhelm , with a deep sigh , " a good man's absence is always regretted . ” 66 True , Señor ; a remarkable man's escape is remarkably regretted . Let well or ill alone , let Maturin alone ; you have had enough of it . " " Business was ...
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... Wilhelm indulged his well - known propensity of paying nothing but on compulsion ; but it is cer- tain that he did not apply for a passport , and thereby subjected himself to arrest and return to Maturin at any stage of the road within ...
... Wilhelm indulged his well - known propensity of paying nothing but on compulsion ; but it is cer- tain that he did not apply for a passport , and thereby subjected himself to arrest and return to Maturin at any stage of the road within ...
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Charles Daniel Dance. " It is not , " said M. Wilhelm , " the evil of snakes that is a scourge to us ; it is , as you rightly observe , our ignorant inexperience that turns blessings into scourges . Depend upon it , the time will come ...
Charles Daniel Dance. " It is not , " said M. Wilhelm , " the evil of snakes that is a scourge to us ; it is , as you rightly observe , our ignorant inexperience that turns blessings into scourges . Depend upon it , the time will come ...
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