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We soon found the hotel to which Kuprasso had directed us, a big place in a courtyard with a very tumble-down-looking portico, and green sun-shutters which rattled drearily in the winter's wind. It proved, as I had feared, to be packed to the door, mostly with German officers.
We then proceeded for three miles or so through orange groves and sandhills to the town, a wretched tumble-down-looking place, half choked up with sand.
I could see the river gleaming ahead, with spaces of liquid blackness in it, and a red or green light burning here and there. It was still raining, and the clouds were heavy in the south and west. We stopped almost at the river-side, before a tumble-down-looking little public-house, and here Brunow alighted hastily.
Yet the one face that he sought was not visible. Down at the further end of the street Benson came upon a tumble-down-looking grocery store. "What kind of sandwiches can you put me up?" queried the submarine boy, casually. "Stranger, eh?" asked the man behind the counter, staring curiously. "Yes; haven't you had any other strangers here lately?"
That dreadful one eye always seemed to be going to shoot. His voice had not a chord of tenderness in it, but was in every way harsh and hard. It was said that he had been a school-master once. I pity the scholars. Widow Martin lived if you could call it living in a tumble-down-looking house, that would not have stood many earthquakes.
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