1 And now the whole fabric of civilisation was bending and giving, and dropping to pieces and melting in the furnace of the war. The stages of the swift and universal collapse of the financial and s
1 And now the whole fabric of civilisation was bending and giving, and dropping to pieces and melting in the furnace of the war. The stages of the swift and universal collapse of the financial and s
1 Bert spent two more days upon Goat Island, and finished all his provisions except the cigarettes and mineral water, …
1 The whack of a bullet on the rocks beside him reminded him that he was a visible object and wearing at least portion…
1 It was only very slowly that Bert got hold of this idea that the whole world was at war, that he formed any image at…
1 And then above the flames of Manhattan Island came a battle, the first battle in the air. The Americans had realised…
1 The City of New York was in the year of the German attack the largest, richest, in many respects the most splendid, …
1 The Prince Karl Albert had made a profound impression upon Bert. He was quite the most terrifying person Bert had ev…
1 Of all the productions of the human imagination that make the world in which Mr. Bert Smallways lived confusingly wo…
I Bert Smallways was a vulgar little creature, the sort of pert, limited soul that the old civilisation of the early t…
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