Romance: A NovelDoubleday, Page, 1914 - 428 pages |
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Page 9
... fell in with an elderly hunks just returned from West Indies , who asks the time at the door of a shipping agent . Castro pulls out a watch , and the old fellow jumps on it , vows it's his own , taken from him years before by some ...
... fell in with an elderly hunks just returned from West Indies , who asks the time at the door of a shipping agent . Castro pulls out a watch , and the old fellow jumps on it , vows it's his own , taken from him years before by some ...
Page 18
... fell upon us , white , damp , and clogging . Ralph reined his horse beside mine . " " I'm sorry , " he began again , " I'm miserably sorry I got you into this scrape . I swear I wouldn't have had it happen , not for a thousand pounds ...
... fell upon us , white , damp , and clogging . Ralph reined his horse beside mine . " " I'm sorry , " he began again , " I'm miserably sorry I got you into this scrape . I swear I wouldn't have had it happen , not for a thousand pounds ...
Page 24
... fell from the moon right above our heads . We embarked , and , as we drew further out , the land turned to a shadow , spotted here and there with little lights . Behind us a cock crowed . The shingle crashed at intervals beneath the ...
... fell from the moon right above our heads . We embarked , and , as we drew further out , the land turned to a shadow , spotted here and there with little lights . Behind us a cock crowed . The shingle crashed at intervals beneath the ...
Page 26
... fell asleep . Old Rangsley was sent ashore with the pilot . It was a new and strange life to me , opening there suddenly enough . The Thames was one of the usual West Indiamen ; but to me even the very ropes and spars , the sea , and ...
... fell asleep . Old Rangsley was sent ashore with the pilot . It was a new and strange life to me , opening there suddenly enough . The Thames was one of the usual West Indiamen ; but to me even the very ropes and spars , the sea , and ...
Page 38
... fell through the scuttle in a square patch . 66 I lowered my voice , too . What life ? " I asked . 66 Life in my uncle's palace , " he said , so sweetly and persuasively that the suggestiveness of it caused a thrill in me . His uncle ...
... fell through the scuttle in a square patch . 66 I lowered my voice , too . What life ? " I asked . 66 Life in my uncle's palace , " he said , so sweetly and persuasively that the suggestiveness of it caused a thrill in me . His uncle ...
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