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... pale blue , who was seated on a stool now . The queen sank unsteadily to her knees and placed her coconut face into the old woman's lap and imitated sobbing , but soundlessly . The woman patted the queen's head , though not with much ...
... pale blue , who was seated on a stool now . The queen sank unsteadily to her knees and placed her coconut face into the old woman's lap and imitated sobbing , but soundlessly . The woman patted the queen's head , though not with much ...
Page 145
... pale at this display and staggered a step backward so that only his huge nose remained lit by the glaucous " moonlight " cast up by the stage . Gabriel stroked Mathilda's hair with one hand and with the other reached up to squeeze ...
... pale at this display and staggered a step backward so that only his huge nose remained lit by the glaucous " moonlight " cast up by the stage . Gabriel stroked Mathilda's hair with one hand and with the other reached up to squeeze ...
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... pale . The dining room had been walled in big pol- ished squares of padded fawn leather that contrasted voluptuously with the porous white stone fireplace . The clothless rectangular dining table was of black gaboon . The lights were ...
... pale . The dining room had been walled in big pol- ished squares of padded fawn leather that contrasted voluptuously with the porous white stone fireplace . The clothless rectangular dining table was of black gaboon . The lights were ...
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