[The Prelude to Adventure by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link book
The Prelude to Adventure

CHAPTER XIV
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The match was at half-past two.
Olva knew at his first sight of Bunning that something had happened.

The man seemed dazed, he dragged his great legs slowly after him and planted them on the floor as though he wanted something that was secure, like a man who had begun desperately to slip down a crevasse.

His back was bowed and his cheeks were flushed as though some one had been striking him, but his eyes told Olva everything.

They were the eyes of a child who has been wakened out of sleep and sees Terror.
"What is it?
Sit down.

Pull yourself together." "Oh! Dune!.


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