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Page 41
... walking in the dead - man night , in the long line of passengers , filing like crabs , shuffling and scratching ; silent as monks and nuns going to vespers . The line was going towards a door at which a man in white coveralls was ...
... walking in the dead - man night , in the long line of passengers , filing like crabs , shuffling and scratching ; silent as monks and nuns going to vespers . The line was going towards a door at which a man in white coveralls was ...
Page 99
... walking with that kind of a man . That is all I have to tell you . ' ' But Bernice , in Barbados , I have seen many girls I went to school with , walking with " This is Canada . ' • • And instinctively , Estelle knew this was the end of ...
... walking with that kind of a man . That is all I have to tell you . ' ' But Bernice , in Barbados , I have seen many girls I went to school with , walking with " This is Canada . ' • • And instinctively , Estelle knew this was the end of ...
Page 219
... walking ; a few black persons ( mostly women ) were walking and holding down their heads as if they thought they should not be seen ; and all of them were mumbling a song which had a very bad and lugubrious melodic line . Estelle could ...
... walking ; a few black persons ( mostly women ) were walking and holding down their heads as if they thought they should not be seen ; and all of them were mumbling a song which had a very bad and lugubrious melodic line . Estelle could ...
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