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well could i see don carlos great heavens no why what for exclaimed the doctor in agitation i tell you it is madness i will not let you go into the town for anything i must
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on this memorable day of the riot his arms were not folded on his chest his hand grasped the barrel of the gun grounded on the threshold he did not look up once at the white dome of higuerota whose cool purity seemed to hold itself aloof from a hot earth his eyes examined the plain curiously
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he extended his hand grasping the briar-wood pipe whose bowl was charred on the edge and knitted his bushy eyebrows heavily at the light you have returned he said with shaky dignity ah very well
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for a long time he refused to give a sign of life till at last decoud's objurgations and perhaps more nostromo's impatient suggestion that he should be thrown overboard as he seemed to be dead induced him to raise one eyelid first and then the other
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and you too have a knife at your throat ah and whom am i to thank for that what are your politics and your mines to me-your silver and your constitutions your don carlos this and don jose that-i
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dismayed by the sound of bells pealing out the arrival of pedrito montero sotillo had spent the morning in battling with his thoughts a contest to which he was unequal from the vacuity of his mind and the violence of his passions disappointment greed anger and fear made a tumult in the colonel's breast louder than the din of bells in the town
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other sotillo buckled on his sword and gave curt peremptory orders to hasten the retirement decided upon in the afternoon sinister impressive his sombrero pulled right down upon his eyebrows he marched first through the door in such disorder of mind that he forgot utterly to provide for dr monygham's possible return
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we had not the slightest trouble with our people he shall escort your diligencia right into sulaco with some of our railway peons the road is bad to have him at hand may save you an upset or two he promised me to take care of your person all the way down as if you were his father
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don juste murmured you are abandoning us don carlos and yet parliamentary institutions he could not finish from grief for a moment he put his hand over his eyes charles gould in his fear of empty loquacity made no answer to the charge
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i fancy i hear another shower on the water he observed in a tone of quiet content i hope it will catch us up nostromo ceased chirruping at once
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it was obviously impossible to take his knowledge of father beron home to europe when making his extorted confessions to the military board dr monygham was not seeking to avoid death he longed for it
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leaning back his leonine head against the side and looking up the wooded slopes of the foothills at the snowy dome of higuerota the front of his house threw off a black long rectangle of shade broadening slowly over the soft ox-cart track
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he clung to them instinctively in the vague apprehension of being flung about again and immediately he heard another lot of shrieks for help prolonged and despairing not near him at all but unaccountably in the distance away from the lighter altogether as if some spirit in the night were mocking at senor hirsch's terror and despair
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too many kings and emperors flourished yet in the world which god had meant for the people he was sad because of his simplicity though always ready to help his countrymen and greatly respected by the italian emigrants wherever he lived
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nostromo muttered true true you are a politician senor rejoin the army and start another revolution he pointed out however that there was a little boat belonging to every lighter fit to carry two men if not more theirs was towing behind of that decoud had not been aware
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i am betrayed muttered the capataz to himself and the doctor who overheard the last word made an effort to speak calmly that is exactly what would happen to you you would be betrayed
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he could not forget but that was not the worst had he met father beron in the street after all these years dr monygham was sure he would have quailed before him
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swifter than a flash of lightning followed the impression of his constrained toppling attitude the shoulders projecting forward the head sunk low upon the breast then he distinguished the arms behind his back and wrenched so terribly that the two clenched fists lashed together had been forced up higher than the shoulder-blades
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through the gaps chopped out in the oleander hedges the harbour branch railway laid out temporarily on the level of the plain curved away its shining parallel ribbons on a belt of scorched and withered grass within sixty yards of the end of the house
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for the space of two or three gasping breaths that new rope held against the sudden strain it was this that gave decoud the sensation of the snatching pull dragging the lighter away to destruction the cause of it of course was inexplicable to him the whole thing was so sudden that he had no time to think
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and a dentist he was off instantly at a smart walk the rigid straddle of his legs the turned-out feet the stiff back the rakish slant of the sombrero above the square motionless set of the shoulders expressing an infinite awe-inspiring impudence
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they were more advanced over there here in sulaco they heard only the echoes of these great questions and of course their official world changed each time coming to them over their rampart of mountains which he himself had traversed in an old diligencia with such a risk to life and limb
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this camp-master was the italian sailor whom all the europeans in sulaco following captain mitchell's mispronunciation were in the habit of calling nostromo and indeed taciturn and ready he did take excellent care of his charge at the bad parts of the road as sir john himself acknowledged to mrs gould afterwards
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that was clear he saw these words as if written in letters of fire upon the wall at which he was gazing abstractedly mrs gould watched his abstraction with dread it was a domestic and frightful phenomenon that darkened and chilled the house for her like a thundercloud passing over the sun
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but all his sensations were perfectly clear he had kept complete possession of himself in fact he was even pleasantly aware of that calmness at the very moment of being pitched head first over the transom to struggle on his back in a lot of water senor hirsch's shriek he had heard and recognized while he was regaining his feet
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you must not hissed the doctor fiercely almost beside himself with the fear of the man doing away with his usefulness for an imbecile whim of some sort i tell you you shall not i would rather he stopped at loss for words feeling fagged out powerless holding on to nostromo's sleeve absolutely for support after his run
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in his exile he called it he could not conceal from himself that they cared nothing for the wrongs of down-trodden nations they listened to his tales of war readily but seemed to ask themselves what he had got out of it after all there was nothing that they could see
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it did not resemble the carelessness of a condottiere it was a puritanism of conduct born of stern enthusiasm like the puritanism of religion this stern devotion to a cause had cast a gloom upon giorgio's old age it cast a gloom because the cause seemed lost
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there was nothing for decoud but to remain on the island he received from nostromo's hands whatever food the foresight of captain mitchell had put on board the lighter and deposited it temporarily in the little dinghy which on their arrival they had hauled up out of sight amongst the bushes
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thinking these thoughts nostromo passed again through the cavernous hall where the smoke was considerably thinned and went up the stairs not so warm to his feet now towards the streak of light at the top the doctor appeared in it for a moment agitated and impatient come up come up
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and all this because you are such a devoted ribierist nostromo said in an incredulous tone all this because i am such a devoted ribierist repeated dr monygham grimly
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a long rope stretched away like a black cotton thread across the strip of white beach to the grapnel nostromo had carried ashore and hooked to the stem of a tree-like shrub in the very opening of the ravine
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we wanted nothing we suffered for the love of all humanity he cried out furiously sometimes and the powerful voice the blazing eyes the shaking of the white mane the brown sinewy hand pointing upwards as if to call heaven to witness impressed his hearers
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the usual characteristic quietness of the man was gone it was not equal to the situation as he conceived it something deeper something unsuspected by everyone had come to the surface decoud with careful movements slipped off his overcoat and divested himself of his boots
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meantime that last kept on sailing slowly and noiselessly before a breeze so faint that it was only by leaning over the side and feeling the water slip through his fingers that decoud convinced himself they were moving at all his drowsy feeling had departed he was glad to know that the lighter was moving
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after the old man had broken off abruptly with a jerk of the head and a movement of the arm meaning clearly but what's the good of talking to you they nudged each other there was in old giorgio an energy of feeling a personal quality of conviction something they called terribilita an old lion they used to say of him
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sometimes on the nights when he walked the floor he wondered grinding his teeth with shame and rage at the fertility of his imagination when stimulated by a sort of pain which makes truth honour selfrespect and life itself matters of little moment
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the darkness had thinned considerably towards the morning though there were no signs of daylight as yet the cargo lighter relieved of its precious burden rocked feebly half afloat with her fore-foot on the sand
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and he could not forget father beron with his monotonous phrase will you confess now reaching him in an awful iteration and lucidity of meaning through the delirious incoherence of unbearable pain
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he followed with his eyes in the dark the sounds made by nostromo the light disclosed him standing without support as if the mere presence of that man who was loyal brave incorruptible who was all his son would have been were enough for the support of his decaying strength
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he esteemed highly the intrepidity of that man whom he valued but little being disillusioned as to mankind in general because of the particular instance in which his own manhood had failed having had to encounter singlehanded during his period of eclipse many physical dangers he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all
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even the revolutions of which there had been two in her time had respected the repose of the place their course ran in the more populous southern parts of the republic and the great valley of sta marta which was like one great battlefield of the parties with the possession of the capital for a prize and an outlet to another ocean
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malediction the doctor would never come out he was probably under arrest already shut up together with don carlos he laughed aloud insanely ha ha ha ha it was pedrito montero who would get the information ha ha ha ha and the silver
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in the evening the empty material trains of flat cars circled round the dark green grove of sulaco and ran undulating slightly with white jets of steam over the plain towards the casa viola on their way to the railway yards by the harbour
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but the doctor judged that this instance testified to a still greater intrepidity of spirit it was pleasing to him he augured well from it for the success of the arduous mission with which he meant to entrust the capataz so marvellously restored to usefulness and in a tone vaguely gratified he observed it must have been terribly dark
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in the emptiness of the room the burly shadow of head and shoulders on the wall had an air of life below the troops fell in silently and moved off by companies without drum or trumpet the old scarecrow major commanded the rearguard but the party he left behind with orders to fire the custom house and burn the carcass of the treacherous jew where it hung
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the chairman of the railway had been enjoying her hospitality for several days and he was really grateful for it it was only since he had left sta marta that he had utterly lost touch with the feeling of european life on the background of his exotic surroundings
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of the crushing paralyzing sense of human littleness which is what really defeats a man struggling with natural forces alone far from the eyes of his fellows he was eminently fit to appreciate the mental image he made for himself of the capataz
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an immortal hero this was your liberty it gave you not only life but immortality as well for that one man his fanaticism had suffered no diminution
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his head moved slightly once as if in sign of approval but nostromo saw clearly that the old man understood nothing of the words there was no one to understand no one he could take into the confidence of decoud's fate of his own into the secret of the silver
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my advice senores is that you should wait for your fate in your houses there is no necessity for you to give yourselves up formally into montero's hands submission to the inevitable as don juste calls it is all very well but when the inevitable is called pedrito
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said the engineer a most useful fellow lent me by captain mitchell of the o s n company it was very good of mitchell charles gould told me i couldn't do better than take advantage of the offer he seems to know how to rule all these muleteers and peons
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in the capital he had been the guest of the legation and had been kept busy negotiating with the members of don vincente's government cultured men men to whom the conditions of civilized business were not unknown what concerned him most at the time was the acquisition of land for the railway
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i am forced to take up openly the plan of a provincial revolution as the only way of placing the enormous material interests involved in the prosperity and peace of sulaco in a position of permanent safety
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the eyes of mrs gould watching her husband's profile filled with tears again and again she seemed to see the despair of the unfortunate antonia what would i have done if charley had been drowned while we were engaged
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he returned in silence their ceremonious bows his taciturnity was his refuge he understood that what they sought was to get the influence of the san tome mine on their side they wanted to go on a conciliating errand to the victor under the wing of the gould concession other public bodies the cabildo the consulado would
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charles gould's fits of abstraction depicted the energetic concentration of a will haunted by a fixed idea a man haunted by a fixed idea is insane he is dangerous even if that idea is an idea of justice for may he not bring the heaven down pitilessly upon a loved head
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you should have asked yourself before you allowed decoud to lead you into all this it was your place to think like a man but if you did not think then try to act like a man now did you imagine decoud cared very much for what would happen to you
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after hours of tension and anxiety precipitated suddenly into an abyss of waters and darkness without earth or sky and confronting it not only with an undismayed mind but with sensible success of course the man was an incomparable swimmer that was known
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it was very simple for an infinitesimal fraction of a second against the light of two flaring and guttering candles through a blue pungent thin haze which made his eyes smart he saw the man standing as he had imagined him with his back to the door casting an enormous and distorted shadow upon the wall
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i am laughing to think that if somebody that did not approve of my presence in town for instance you understand senor doctor if somebody were to give me up to pedrito it would not be beyond my power to make friends even with him
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the flame showed a bronzed black-whiskered face a pair of eyes gazing straight then rearranging his wrappings he sank full length and laid his head again on the saddle that's our camp-master whom i must send back to sulaco now we are going to carry our survey into the sta marta valley
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from there his eyes traced in one instantaneous glance the hide rope going upwards from the tied wrists over a heavy beam and down to a staple in the wall he did not want to look at the rigid legs
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several bullets struck the end of the wall together pieces of plaster could be heard falling outside a voice screamed here they come and after a moment of uneasy silence there was a rush of running feet along the front then the tension of old giorgio's attitude relaxed and
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you hear another shower he said doubtfully a sort of thinning of the darkness seemed to have taken place and decoud could see now the outline of his companion's figure and even the sail came out of the night like a square block of dense snow the sound which decoud had detected came along the water harshly
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this movement had its adversaries even there sotillo governed esmeralda with repressive severity till the adverse course of events upon the distant theatre of civil war forced upon him the reflection that after all the great silver mine was fated to become the spoil of the victors
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he had an immense scorn for this outbreak of scoundrels and leperos who did not know the meaning of the word liberty he grounded his old gun and turning his head glanced at the coloured lithograph of garibaldi in a black frame on the white wall
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decoud heard the splash of his feet in the brook and followed his footsteps down the ravine his form was lost among the bushes till he had reached the strip of sand under the cliff as often happens in the gulf when the showers during the first part of the night had been frequent and heavy
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that the man should have been killed like this was what the doctor could not understand yes but why shot he murmured to himself nostromo kept very still
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the italian drivers saluted him from the foot-plate with raised hand while the negro brakesmen sat carelessly on the brakes looking straight forward with the rims of their big hats flapping in the wind in return giorgio would give a slight sideways jerk of the head without unfolding his arms
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viejo it is me wait nostromo after barricading the door and closing the shutters carefully groped upon a shelf for a candle and lit it old viola had risen
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in the sta marta valley where there was already one line in existence the people were tractable and it was only a matter of price a commission had been nominated to fix the values and the difficulty resolved itself into the judicious influencing of the commissioners
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he thought with a sickening dread that the man was so well known that he could not escape recognition the house of the senor administrador was beset by spies no doubt and even the very servants of the casa were not to be trusted reflect capataz he said impressively what are you laughing at
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and the tremulous sighs that at each gust of wind passed under the high roof the light of the two candles burning before the perpendicular and breathless immobility of the late senor hirsch threw a gleam afar over land and water like a signal in the night
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there is no need to exhibit pointedly the whole extent of your surrender the fault of this country is the want of measure in political life flat acquiescence in illegality followed by sanguinary reaction that senores is not the way to a stable and prosperous future
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this contingency was not to be feared now father beron was dead but the sickening certitude prevented dr monygham from looking anybody in the face dr monygham had become in a manner the slave of a ghost
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then all was still-as still as when you wake up in your bed in a dark room from a bizarre and agitated dream the lighter rocked slightly the rain was still falling two groping hands took hold of his bruised sides from behind and the capataz's voice whispered in his ear silence for your life silence
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it was through the esmeralda cable alone that the san tome mine could be kept in constant touch with the great financier whose tacit approval made the strength of the ribierist movement
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always with that mysterious sensation of being dragged headlong through the darkness not a word not a cry escaped him he had no time to see anything and following upon the despairing screams for help the dragging motion ceased so suddenly that he staggered forward with open arms and fell against the pile of the treasure boxes
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failed somehow in their haste to set the staircase properly alight the body of the late senor hirsch dwelt alone for a time in the dismal solitude of the unfinished building resounding weirdly with sudden slams and clicks of doors and latches with rustling scurries of torn papers
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that-i don't know burst out the exasperated doctor there are innocent people in danger whose little finger is worth more than you or i and all the ribierists together i don't know
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he stopped a little longer surveying not the man who had ceased to suffer but the woman kneeling in silent contemplation of the rigid face with its pinched nostrils and a white gleam in the imperfectly closed eyes she lifted her head slowly and said in a dull voice-it is not long since he had become a cargador only
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and we may even get the estrapade too or worse quien sabe with your pretty tale of the silver you put into sotillo's head it was in his head already the doctor protested i only-yes and you only nailed it there so that the devil himself that
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tall trails of dust subsided here and there in a speckless sky the sun hung clear and blinding knots of men ran headlong others made a stand and the irregular rattle of firearms came rippling to his ears in the fiery still air
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himself that is precisely what i meant to do caught up the doctor that is what you meant to do bueno it is as i say you are a dangerous man their voices which without rising had been growing quarrelsome
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in the moment of relief from the apprehension of the greatest danger perhaps his family had been exposed to in all their wanderings he had turned to the picture of his old chief first and only then laid his hand on his wife's shoulder
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sulaco to-morrow or as a matter of fact to-day since the dawn was not very far sotillo would find out in what way the treasure had gone a gang of cargadores had been employed in loading it into a railway truck from the custom house store-rooms and running the truck on to the wharf
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decoud's faintly ironic recognition used to make him uneasy but the familiarity of a man like don martin was flattering whereas the doctor was a nobody he could remember him a penniless outcast slinking about the streets of sulaco without a single friend or acquaintance till don carlos gould took him into the service of the mine
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turning swiftly and catching the doctor by the shoulders nostromo thrust his face close to his maladetta you follow me speaking of the treasure you have sworn my ruin you were the last man who looked upon me before i went out with it and sidoni the engine-driver says you have an evil eye
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all at once in the midst of the laugh he became motionless and silent as if turned into stone he too had a prisoner a prisoner who must must know the real truth he would have to be made to speak
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