Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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... Rooksby had become engaged to my sister Veronica , and I had a fit of jealous misery . I was rawboned , with fair hair , I had a good skin , tanned by the weather , good teeth , and brown eyes . I had not had a very happy life , and I ...
... Rooksby had become engaged to my sister Veronica , and I had a fit of jealous misery . I was rawboned , with fair hair , I had a good skin , tanned by the weather , good teeth , and brown eyes . I had not had a very happy life , and I ...
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... Rooksby : a pleasant , well - spoken , amiable young squire of the immediate neighborhood ; young Sir Ralph , a man popular with all sorts , and in love with my sister Veronica from early days . Veronica was very beautiful , and very ...
... Rooksby : a pleasant , well - spoken , amiable young squire of the immediate neighborhood ; young Sir Ralph , a man popular with all sorts , and in love with my sister Veronica from early days . Veronica was very beautiful , and very ...
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... Rooksby . Rooksby had foreign relations , too . The uncle from whom he inherited the Priory had married a Riego , a Cas- tilian , during the Peninsular war . He had been a prisoner at the time he had died in Spain , I think . When Ralph ...
... Rooksby . Rooksby had foreign relations , too . The uncle from whom he inherited the Priory had married a Riego , a Cas- tilian , during the Peninsular war . He had been a prisoner at the time he had died in Spain , I think . When Ralph ...
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... Rooksby , Sir Peter that was , ride upon it past the quarry with his head under his arm . I don't think I believed in him , but I believed in the smugglers who shared the highway with that horrible ghost . It is impossible for anyone ...
... Rooksby , Sir Peter that was , ride upon it past the quarry with his head under his arm . I don't think I believed in him , but I believed in the smugglers who shared the highway with that horrible ghost . It is impossible for anyone ...
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... Rooksby hailed me suddenly from downstairs . " Hey , John - John Kemp ; come down , I say ! " I started away from the glass as if I had been taken in an act of folly . Rooksby was flicking his leg with his switch in the door- way , at ...
... Rooksby hailed me suddenly from downstairs . " Hey , John - John Kemp ; come down , I say ! " I started away from the glass as if I had been taken in an act of folly . Rooksby was flicking his leg with his switch in the door- way , at ...
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