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Page 74
... women . Down the coast , beyond his vil- lage , was a village in which only Malay people live . The Malay women are before all others in beauty , very fair , with eyes shaped like pomegranate seeds . They are Mohammedan people , and no ...
... women . Down the coast , beyond his vil- lage , was a village in which only Malay people live . The Malay women are before all others in beauty , very fair , with eyes shaped like pomegranate seeds . They are Mohammedan people , and no ...
Page 75
... women . But if I be seen even talking to a Malay woman , the men of the village would rise and beat me to death . The desire is killing me . Now you , I know , have great skill in charms . You must make me one therefore which will bring ...
... women . But if I be seen even talking to a Malay woman , the men of the village would rise and beat me to death . The desire is killing me . Now you , I know , have great skill in charms . You must make me one therefore which will bring ...
Page 147
Leonard Woolf. markable even in a town : to find her among the squalid women of so squalid a village astonished him . He wanted a woman to live with him ; he was always wanting a woman ; and it would be far more comfortable to have his ...
Leonard Woolf. markable even in a town : to find her among the squalid women of so squalid a village astonished him . He wanted a woman to live with him ; he was always wanting a woman ; and it would be far more comfortable to have his ...
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