Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 17
... cloak , and something reckless in the way he set his spurred heel on the ground . He was the son of an old Marsh squire . Old Rangsley had been head of the last of the Owlers - the aristocracy of export smugglers - and Jack had sunk a ...
... cloak , and something reckless in the way he set his spurred heel on the ground . He was the son of an old Marsh squire . Old Rangsley had been head of the last of the Owlers - the aristocracy of export smugglers - and Jack had sunk a ...
Page 27
... cloak , ragged at the edges , and his feet were often bare ; at his side would lie his wooden right hand . As a rule , the place of his forearm was taken by a long , thin , steel blade , that he was forever sharpening . Carlos talked ...
... cloak , ragged at the edges , and his feet were often bare ; at his side would lie his wooden right hand . As a rule , the place of his forearm was taken by a long , thin , steel blade , that he was forever sharpening . Carlos talked ...
Page 38
... cloak with a grandiose gesture . " By my hand ! " he added with difficulty . He was really very much alarmed . Carlos was gazing up the hatch . I was ready to laugh at the idea of dying by Tomas Castro's hand while , within five feet of ...
... cloak with a grandiose gesture . " By my hand ! " he added with difficulty . He was really very much alarmed . Carlos was gazing up the hatch . I was ready to laugh at the idea of dying by Tomas Castro's hand while , within five feet of ...
Page 40
... cloak . " Up - mount ! " Carlos commanded . Castro muttered , " Vamos , " and began clumsily to climb the ladder , like a bale of rags being hauled from above . Carlos placed his foot on the steps , preparing to follow him . He turned ...
... cloak . " Up - mount ! " Carlos commanded . Castro muttered , " Vamos , " and began clumsily to climb the ladder , like a bale of rags being hauled from above . Carlos placed his foot on the steps , preparing to follow him . He turned ...
Page 94
... cloak , stood over me , but Major Cowper fell on his knees near my head , almost sobbing : 66 ' My papers ! My papers ! I tell you I shall starve . Make them give me back my papers . They aint any use to them - my pension - mortgages ...
... cloak , stood over me , but Major Cowper fell on his knees near my head , almost sobbing : 66 ' My papers ! My papers ! I tell you I shall starve . Make them give me back my papers . They aint any use to them - my pension - mortgages ...
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