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Page 154
Sufficient to say that on the night of the hunt Seraphim managed the impossible and turned over the wide - winged sledge , throwing everyone into the snow just at the critical moment when it was rumoured that the shadows of wolves were ...
Sufficient to say that on the night of the hunt Seraphim managed the impossible and turned over the wide - winged sledge , throwing everyone into the snow just at the critical moment when it was rumoured that the shadows of wolves were ...
Page 237
Soon the power - house was erected , and Pema , turned electrician , spun webs of shining copper wire across the gorge . Then sizzling arcs turned night into day and drove the fish in the river to madness so that they leapt twenty feet ...
Soon the power - house was erected , and Pema , turned electrician , spun webs of shining copper wire across the gorge . Then sizzling arcs turned night into day and drove the fish in the river to madness so that they leapt twenty feet ...
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Pema nodded and smiled . " It is as I said . This is a table off which a maharajah could eat his food . " He turned to me with a graceful salaam . " Sahib , it is finished . " " By God's will .
Pema nodded and smiled . " It is as I said . This is a table off which a maharajah could eat his food . " He turned to me with a graceful salaam . " Sahib , it is finished . " " By God's will .
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