Six Feet of the Country, Volume 1Seven stories of South Africa deal with a missing body, a mysterious Rhodesian visitor, a pass law protest, a white geologist and his Black secretary, and a pair of childhood sweethearts. |
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... night just before she was taken away , and he felt himself maddened , baffled and hopeless . He had become the ghost of a victim , hanging about the scene of a crime whose motive he could not understand and had not had time to learn ...
... night just before she was taken away , and he felt himself maddened , baffled and hopeless . He had become the ghost of a victim , hanging about the scene of a crime whose motive he could not understand and had not had time to learn ...
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... night . She never attempted to cook anything until she had watched in silence while he did it the way he liked , and she learned to reproduce exactly the simple dishes he preferred . She handled his pieces of rock and stone , at first ...
... night . She never attempted to cook anything until she had watched in silence while he did it the way he liked , and she learned to reproduce exactly the simple dishes he preferred . She handled his pieces of rock and stone , at first ...
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... night's moon , the size of the bicycle's reflector , was still shiny in the sky . The bicycle rode up on spring - hares without disturbing them , in the forest ; there was a stink of jackal - fouling still sharp on the dew . Smoke ...
... night's moon , the size of the bicycle's reflector , was still shiny in the sky . The bicycle rode up on spring - hares without disturbing them , in the forest ; there was a stink of jackal - fouling still sharp on the dew . Smoke ...
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Contents | 7 |
Good Climate Friendly Inhabitants | 21 |
A Chip of Glass Ruby | 36 |
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