Lie Down in Darkness: A NovelBobbs-Merrill, 1951 - 400 pages |
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Page 147
... It's in the closet where the luggage is . " " Yes'm . " The enormous buttocks reared before her as La Ruth bent down , the faded skirt hiked high , revealing fat mahogany limbs and the sandy crater of a vaccination scar . " Seems like it's ...
... It's in the closet where the luggage is . " " Yes'm . " The enormous buttocks reared before her as La Ruth bent down , the faded skirt hiked high , revealing fat mahogany limbs and the sandy crater of a vaccination scar . " Seems like it's ...
Page 287
... its golden insides exposed and with white frosting crumbling softly around its edges , the cake looks like a great snow ... it's almost time to leave . Yet no one leaves . Not yet . The cake must be eaten and then there's space for more ...
... its golden insides exposed and with white frosting crumbling softly around its edges , the cake looks like a great snow ... it's almost time to leave . Yet no one leaves . Not yet . The cake must be eaten and then there's space for more ...
Page 378
... it's not , it's the fourth or fifth or sixth ; I've lost track . " " It's a beautiful picture , " I said . In the dim light the tragic face still looked heavenward , amid the junk and the rubble , through the final , extinguishing dusk ...
... it's not , it's the fourth or fifth or sixth ; I've lost track . " " It's a beautiful picture , " I said . In the dim light the tragic face still looked heavenward , amid the junk and the rubble , through the final , extinguishing dusk ...
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