Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 8
... fights on Hounslow Heath whilst I was to remain forever a farmer's boy . That afternoon I was upstairs , looking at the reflection of myself in the tall glass , wondering miserably why I seemed to be such an oaf . The voice of Rooksby ...
... fights on Hounslow Heath whilst I was to remain forever a farmer's boy . That afternoon I was upstairs , looking at the reflection of myself in the tall glass , wondering miserably why I seemed to be such an oaf . The voice of Rooksby ...
Page 47
... fighting man ; but when it came to clearing the Gulf of Mexico , he was about as useless as a prize - fighter trying to clear a stable of rats . I don't suppose El Demonio really did more than a tithe of the mischief attributed to him ...
... fighting man ; but when it came to clearing the Gulf of Mexico , he was about as useless as a prize - fighter trying to clear a stable of rats . I don't suppose El Demonio really did more than a tithe of the mischief attributed to him ...
Page 55
... fighting dogs too large to be pleasant . · • " " When I reached the top , there was a sort of undignified scuffle , and in the end I found myself standing above a ghastly white gentleman who , from a sitting posture , was gasping out ...
... fighting dogs too large to be pleasant . · • " " When I reached the top , there was a sort of undignified scuffle , and in the end I found myself standing above a ghastly white gentleman who , from a sitting posture , was gasping out ...
Page 92
... fighting for the buttons . I had just time to shout to him , " Your wife's down there , she's all right ! " when very suddenly I became aware that Tomas Castro was swearing horribly at these thieves . He drove them away , and we were ...
... fighting for the buttons . I had just time to shout to him , " Your wife's down there , she's all right ! " when very suddenly I became aware that Tomas Castro was swearing horribly at these thieves . He drove them away , and we were ...
Page 94
... fight for it . There were dozens of them ; they clutched my wrists , my elbows , and in between my wrists and my elbows , and my shoulders . One pair of arms was round my neck , another round my waist , and they kept on trying to catch ...
... fight for it . There were dozens of them ; they clutched my wrists , my elbows , and in between my wrists and my elbows , and my shoulders . One pair of arms was round my neck , another round my waist , and they kept on trying to catch ...
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