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On a main road , in a grocer's shop open to the street , I ring from a vivid red public telephone . The owner , a wrinkled old man , helps me to contact another hostel . After ten minutes of confusion I hear an English - speaking voice ...
On a main road , in a grocer's shop open to the street , I ring from a vivid red public telephone . The owner , a wrinkled old man , helps me to contact another hostel . After ten minutes of confusion I hear an English - speaking voice ...
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And there was that man standing beside the road . He was dressed in his best black suiting and his long black overcoat , and his black felt hat stood high upon his head . It was obvious that it was his intention to attend some function ...
And there was that man standing beside the road . He was dressed in his best black suiting and his long black overcoat , and his black felt hat stood high upon his head . It was obvious that it was his intention to attend some function ...
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As we did , we passed a few less fortunate and less powerful that seemed permanently bogged and perilously close to the road's edge , where a hidden world plummeted down out of sight . At times the whole road appeared to be jammed with ...
As we did , we passed a few less fortunate and less powerful that seemed permanently bogged and perilously close to the road's edge , where a hidden world plummeted down out of sight . At times the whole road appeared to be jammed with ...
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