viii is VALDEMAR HARALDSEN in The Island of Sheep.
"Then she broke to me what I should never have suspected, that there was another guest in the Rose and Crown ... Name of Smith, Mr James Smith"
"I remember trying to imagine what kind of fellow I should meet, and to reconstruct a younger version of old Haraldsen. I got one of the shocks of my life when he appeared. For it was the man Smith, whom Peter John and I had met in the Rose and Crown at Hanham"
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"Then she broke to me what I should never have suspected, that there was another guest in the Rose and Crown ... Name of Smith, Mr James Smith"
"I remember trying to imagine what kind of fellow I should meet, and to reconstruct a younger version of old Haraldsen.
I got one of the shocks of my life when he appeared. For it was the man Smith, whom Peter John and I had met in the Rose and Crown at Hanham"
"So at twenty-six there was Valdemar Haraldsen"
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