Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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... any other hundred - foot drop . The wretched creatures suffered all the tortures of death before they let go , and , as a rule , they never returned to our parts . T CHAPTER III HE spirit of the age has changed 16 ROMANCE.
... any other hundred - foot drop . The wretched creatures suffered all the tortures of death before they let go , and , as a rule , they never returned to our parts . T CHAPTER III HE spirit of the age has changed 16 ROMANCE.
Page 25
... death ; that here was not romance , but an end — a disenchanted surprise that it should so soon be all over . We kept a grim silence . Further out in the bay , we were caught in a heavy squall . Sitting by the tiller , I got as much out ...
... death ; that here was not romance , but an end — a disenchanted surprise that it should so soon be all over . We kept a grim silence . Further out in the bay , we were caught in a heavy squall . Sitting by the tiller , I got as much out ...
Page 104
... death upon it , like an alabaster effigy of an old knight in a cathedral . On the red - velvet hangings of the bed was an immense coat - of - arms , worked in silk and surrounded by a collar , with the golden sheep hanging from the ring ...
... death upon it , like an alabaster effigy of an old knight in a cathedral . On the red - velvet hangings of the bed was an immense coat - of - arms , worked in silk and surrounded by a collar , with the golden sheep hanging from the ring ...
Page 113
... Death hovered over that table — and also , as if the breath of past ages . The mul- titude of lights , the polished floor of costly wood , the bare white- ness of walls wainscoted with marble , the vastness of the room , the imposing ...
... Death hovered over that table — and also , as if the breath of past ages . The mul- titude of lights , the polished floor of costly wood , the bare white- ness of walls wainscoted with marble , the vastness of the room , the imposing ...
Page 115
... death had made a great solitude round his declining years . Yes , that sorrow , and the base intrigues of that man — a fugitive , a hanger - on of her mother's family - recom- mended to Don Balthasar's grace by her mother's favor . Yes ...
... death had made a great solitude round his declining years . Yes , that sorrow , and the base intrigues of that man — a fugitive , a hanger - on of her mother's family - recom- mended to Don Balthasar's grace by her mother's favor . Yes ...
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