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The Purchase Price

Emerson Hough / Hough Emerson Hough

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Editorial:
1st World Library - Literary Society
Año de edición:
2007
Materia
Antologías (no poéticas)
ISBN:
9781421845326
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Madam, you are charming! You have not slept, and yet you smile. No man could ask a better prisoner. She turned to him, smiling faintly. 'I thank you. At least we have had breakfast, and for such mercy I am grateful to my jailer. I admit I was famished. What now?' With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder.

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