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Myrtle Bank
dagoes.
planter’s punch.
Spartan mother,
Morro crab
Italian shoes and Danish ashtrays and Swedish glass and mauve British woollies. The private dining-room where
blue-plate lunch
‘It was the English who made hours for drinking, not the Scotch. They’ll be making hours for dying next.’
Ossian.
Swedish glass is the best in the world.
‘In that case I may ask you later to use a father’s influence.’ ‘How Victorian you are, Captain Segura. A father today has no influence.
bootblacks
jalousies
They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like the pain of an amputated leg no longer there. It was time, Wormold thought, to pack up and go and leave the ruins of Havana.
Mosaic Code.
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?’
draughts,
it. Wormold recklessly began a pincer-movement
Seville-Biltmore?’
Wormold began to realize the fundamental weakness of his plan, that it is possible for a good player to defeat an opponent without capturing his pieces.
Old Fourteenth opening,
bawled
my madness offends’.
enmity,
supercilious
Vedado, to the little white houses and the bougainvilleas of the rich.
She says like Sir Humphrey Gilbert that God is just as close to her in England as in Cuba.’ ‘It wasn’t quite what Gilbert said.’
‘Jakarta.’
Temperance.’
reminiscences
Tattersall’s
‘Knightsbridge,
