Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 29
... fly there . See how astonished he was . He did never expect that . " He had actually impaled a crawling cockroach . He spent his days cooking extraor- dinary messes , crouching for hours over a little charcoal brazier that he lit ...
... fly there . See how astonished he was . He did never expect that . " He had actually impaled a crawling cockroach . He spent his days cooking extraor- dinary messes , crouching for hours over a little charcoal brazier that he lit ...
Page 88
... flying the Mexican flag remained hove to abeam . But in the man in command of the boarding party I recognized Tomas Castro ! He was a pirate . My surmises were correct . He looked the part to the life , in a plumed hat , cloaked to the ...
... flying the Mexican flag remained hove to abeam . But in the man in command of the boarding party I recognized Tomas Castro ! He was a pirate . My surmises were correct . He looked the part to the life , in a plumed hat , cloaked to the ...
Page 94
... fly , my heart was bursting my ribs . I lay on my back and managed to say , Give me air . " I thought I should die . 66 Castro , draped in his cloak , stood over me , but Major Cowper fell on his knees near my head , almost sobbing : 66 ...
... fly , my heart was bursting my ribs . I lay on my back and managed to say , Give me air . " I thought I should die . 66 Castro , draped in his cloak , stood over me , but Major Cowper fell on his knees near my head , almost sobbing : 66 ...
Page 99
... fly , sacré nom d'une pipe . ... One would have thought you were in earnest . Ah , well ! " He stretched himself at length on . the mattress , and closed his eyes . I looked at him to discover traces of irony . There weren't any . He ...
... fly , sacré nom d'une pipe . ... One would have thought you were in earnest . Ah , well ! " He stretched himself at length on . the mattress , and closed his eyes . I looked at him to discover traces of irony . There weren't any . He ...
Page 148
... fly at my throat ? I was the bigger , and the younger man . I wished he would . But he found a way of making me feel all his other advantages . He did not recognize my exist- ence . He appeared not to see me at all . He seemed not to be ...
... fly at my throat ? I was the bigger , and the younger man . I wished he would . But he found a way of making me feel all his other advantages . He did not recognize my exist- ence . He appeared not to see me at all . He seemed not to be ...
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