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His eyes which were blue like hers, only faded, without depth, seemed to

start out of their orbits He did really look as if he were choking He

even put his hand to his collar"

"You know," continued Marlow out of the shadow of the bookcase and nearly

invisible in the depths of the ariven h he had sed

a poker But it seems that he could collapse I can hardly picture this

to myself I understand that he did collapse to a certain extent in his

corner of the cab The unexpected had cru, a little disillusioned, and nodded at hiravely:

Yes Married What she did not like was to see hi to the devotion of a daughter There was soe in it Old de Barral could not quite command his

entle voice

"You were just saying that in this orld there ere, only you and

I, to stick to each other"

She was di in these soft low

tones, in these words which appealed to her poignantly She defended