Задание

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The Blue Cross

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green 1 ____ ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, 2 ____ whom the man we 3 ____ follow was by no means conspicuous - nor wished to be. There was nothing 4 ____ about him, except a slight contrast between the holiday gaiety of his clothes and the 5 ____ gravity of his face. His clothes 6 _____ a slight, pale grey jacket, a white waistcoat, and a silver straw hat with a grey-blue ribbon. His lean face was dark by contrast, and 7_____ in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested an Elizabethan ruff. He was smoking a cigarette 8 _____ the seriousness of an idler. There was nothing about him to 9 _____ the fact that the grey jacket covered a loaded revolver, that the white waistcoat covered a police card, or that the straw hat covered one of 10 _____ intellects in Europe.

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