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p 308, line, Roberts, 25 x 90 mm

Signature, 'Roberts', blc. Naked figure laying full length, arm curled about head at right, where there is a bird looking left.

p 278 [tr ed p 297] - ' I hid under some bushes near the well for hours, against the heat, very lazy, pretending to be asleep, the wide silk sleeve of my pillow-arm drawn over my face as veil against the flies.'

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